Scam Interceptors
Scam Interceptors is a TV show on BBC1. Working with ethical hackers, Rav Wilding is hunting down the scammers plaguing our lives – using cutting-edge tech to catch out the crooks. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 45 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in December 2025.
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Scam Interceptors
Can the ground team cross London and reach a local supermarket in time to stop a couple buying gift cards for scammers?
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The team confronts scammers posing as the UK’s National Crime Agency, but it’s going to take more than one hit to take this bunch of cybercrooks out of action.
Ethical hacker Jim Browning wins the team access to a brand new scam call centre, where criminals are in the midst of stealing one man’s passwords and email addresses.
Scammers posing as the police target a young carer based in London. If she does not comply with their demands, they say they will arrest her.
After scammers used her name and image to con victims out of thousands, Amanda Holden is teaming up with Scam Interceptors to turn the tables.
Series 5
The team take on foul-mouthed scammers claiming to be from the UK police. The fraudsters have bullied their victim into believing that criminals have opened bank accounts in his name overseas.
Scammers pretending to be a broadband provider take control of a man’s phone. They have turned on his camera and are cutting the team’s calls to him.
The team take on the most patronising and manipulative scammer they have ever come across as he seeks to convince a woman in Essex to hand over information for him to get into her bank account.
A scammer promises a free set of Apple AirPods to every person he speaks to. But we know that he is only after their money.
Series 4
The team encounter the most staggering of circumstances as a scammer, posing as a UK broadband company, tries to defraud an older man using remote access to his computer.
Series 5
The team hijack a scam call centre’s computer system – how will they react when they start messing with their calls?
Scammers claim a woman’s broadband router is being targeted by hackers – and that she needs their help to fix it. The problem is: the interceptors cannot track her down.
Ethical hacker Jim Browning breaks into the CCTV system of a group of Pakistan-based scammers who are conning their way into a man’s mobile phone account.
The interceptors must identify a man trapped into believing he is going to be arrested by the National Crime Agency if he does not transfer money to scammers.
The ground team are scrambled in a desperate bid to stop a woman letting her mobile phone account be used to buy scammers a brand new, top-of-the-range handset.
Scammers claiming to be phone company BT have a couple in Yorkshire on the hook for thousands of pounds.
The team try to stop a Preston student from handing over money to scammers who have told her that they are from the UK’s National Crime Agency.
Scammers pretending to be from Sky broadband and claiming there are problems with her internet have got into one woman’s phone and are just seconds away from helping themselves to her money.
Series 4
The team tackle scammers posing as the UK’s National Crime Agency to scare their targets into giving them money.
Series 3
A scammer claiming to be a senior manager at a high-street bank mercilessly targets a traumatised victim. The ground interceptors are called into action to reach the woman before it’s too late.