Scam Interceptors

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| producer = Sherry Knight{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00164dz |title=BBC One - Scam Interceptors, Series 1, Episode 1 |author=|publisher=BBC |access-date=8 May 2023 }} First broadcast 4 April 2022

| executive_producer = Rowland Stone{{cite news |last=Jack |first=Malcolm |date=28 April 2023 |title='They're coming up with devious ways to take your money': the TV hackers taking on the scammers |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/apr/28/scam-interceptors-bbc-ethical-hacker |work=The Guardian |access-date=8 May 2023}}

| presenter = Rav Wilding, Nick Stapleton

| starring = Jim Browning

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| network = BBC One

| first_aired = {{start date|2022|4|4|df=y}}

| last_aired = present

| num_series = 4

| num_episodes = 46

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Scam Interceptors is a British factual television programme about Internet fraud. Inspired by a 2020 episode of Panorama featuring ethical hacker Jim Browning, the programme shows a television team (including presenters Rav Wilding and Nick Stapleton, Browning and others) as they monitor and intervene in scams in progress. The programme has a greater focus on the victims and preventing actual live scams taking place than the Panorama episode. The show is filmed mostly inside the BBC Pacific Quay studios in Glasgow.

Format

In the programme, the television team sends calls and texts to victims to alert them to scams as they are occurring. The first series of Scam Interceptors featured Crimewatch-style additional content, and revealed that most fraud in the United Kingdom was perpetrated from industrial-scale scamming call centres in Asia.{{cite news |last=Dathan |first=Matt |date=10 April 2023 |title=Labour vows to bar foreign scam callers using UK numbers |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/labour-vows-to-bar-foreign-scam-callers-using-uk-numbers-ckbmb9sfb |work=The Times |access-date=8 May 2023}} The second series, released in 2023, also identifies individuals involved in scamming.{{cite press release |date=25 April 2023 |title=TV BAFTA-nominated series Scam Interceptors returns to hack the hackers and expose unscrupulous scammers |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/scam-interceptors-series-two |publisher=BBC Media Centre |access-date=9 May 2023}}{{cite news |last=Tunney |first=Liam |date=21 April 2023 |title=Scam-busting NI YouTuber teams up with BBC series to help expose con artists |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/scam-busting-ni-youtuber-teams-up-with-bbc-series-to-help-expose-con-artists/1913195434.html |work=Belfast Telegraph |access-date=8 May 2023}}

Awards

Scam Interceptors was nominated for a BAFTA Award for best daytime show in 2023. A repeat of series one was aired during primetime.

In May 2024, Scam Interceptors won the Daytime award for best daytime series at the 2024 British Academy Television Awards.{{cite web|url=https://www.bafta.org/television/awards/2024-nominations-winners|title=BAFTA Television 2024: The Winners and Nominations|website=bafta.org|accessdate=8 August 2024}}

References

External links

[https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m00164f1/scam-interceptors Programme Web site with list of episodes], updated as required.
{{cite web|url=https://time.com/7021745/the-age-of-scams/|title=Welcome to the Golden Age of Scams|author=Semuels, Alana|magazine=Time|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=September 18, 2024|archive-date=September 18, 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240918173146/https://time.com/7021745/the-age-of-scams/}}

Category:2020s British crime television series

Category:2020s British reality television series

Category:BBC crime television shows

Category:BBC reality television shows

Category:BBC television documentaries

Category:Fraud in television