Scam Interceptors

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Factual: Crime & Justice

Working with ethical hackers, Rav Wilding is hunting down the scammers plaguing our lives.

Working with ethical hackers, Rav Wilding is hunting down the scammers plaguing our lives – using cutting-edge tech to catch out the crooks.

Rav Wilding is hunting down the scammers plaguing our lives. Working with ethical hackers to hack into the fraudsters’ illegal call centres, Rav uses cutting-edge technology to monitor the scammers’ phone calls in an effort to stop victims losing out to real-time scams.

Series 2

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Rav Wilding

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Rowland Stone

Scam Interceptors: Series 2: The Phoney Cancellation Form

Episode 14

The Phoney Cancellation Form

BBC One - Scam Interceptors, Series 2, The Phoney Cancellation Form

A man is made to believe he has accidentally taken out a subscription.

A man has been told he has accidentally taken out a subscription and needs to fill out a cancellation form if he wants his cash back. But in fact, it is all part of a scam.

A man believes he has accidentally taken out a subscription, and he wants his money back. What he doesn’t know is that he is really talking to scammers, and the cancellation form they are asking him to fill in is actually a fast track to giving them his hard-earned cash. That is, unless the Interceptors can get hold of him before he parts with any money. 

Meanwhile, we hear from a woman who handed over £20,000 to fraudsters she thought were helping her take advantage of a government energy rebate.

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