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Scam Interceptors
Presented byRav Wilding
Nick Stapleton[1][2]
StarringJim Browning[1]
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series5
No. of episodes62
Production
Executive producerRowland Stone[1]
ProducerSherry Knight[2]
Original release
NetworkBBC One
Release4 April 2022 (2022-04-04)[2] –
present

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.[1][3] The programme has a greater focus on the victims and preventing actual live scams taking place than the Panorama episode.[1] The show is filmed mostly inside the BBC Pacific Quay studios in Glasgow.

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In the programme, the television team finds telephone scams that are in progress, and sends calls and texts to victims to alert them.[1][3] The first series of Scam Interceptors featured Crimewatch-style additional content,[1] and revealed that most fraud in the United Kingdom was perpetrated from industrial-scale scamming call centres in Asia.[4] The second series, released in 2023, also identifies individuals involved in scamming.[3][5]

Awards

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Scam Interceptors was nominated for a BAFTA Award for best daytime show in 2023.[1][5] A repeat of series one was aired during primetime.[1]

In May 2024, Scam Interceptors won the Daytime award for best daytime series at the 2024 British Academy Television Awards.[6]

Scam Interceptors won a BAFTA Television Award for best daytime show in 2026.[7]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Jack, Malcolm (28 April 2023). "'They're coming up with devious ways to take your money': the TV hackers taking on the scammers". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 "BBC One - Scam Interceptors, Series 1, Episode 1". BBC. Retrieved 8 May 2023. First broadcast 4 April 2022
  3. 1 2 3 "TV BAFTA-nominated series Scam Interceptors returns to hack the hackers and expose unscrupulous scammers" (Press release). BBC Media Centre. 25 April 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
  4. ↑ Dathan, Matt (10 April 2023). "Labour vows to bar foreign scam callers using UK numbers". The Times. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  5. 1 2 Tunney, Liam (21 April 2023). "Scam-busting NI YouTuber teams up with BBC series to help expose con artists". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  6. ↑ "BAFTA Television 2024: The Winners and Nominations". bafta.org. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  7. ↑ "BBC leads the 2026 BAFTA Television Awards with 12 wins". bbc.co.uk/mediacentre. 11 May 2026. Retrieved 11 May 2026.
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