Working with ethical hackers, Rav Wilding is hunting down the scammers plaguing our lives. He uses cutting-edge technology to monitor scammers’ phone calls in an effort to stop the victims losing out to real-time scams. It’s then a race against the criminals to contact the victim and intercept the scam before any money is handed over to the crooks. The show also explores the biggest anti-social issues troubling UK neighbourhoods, such as bike theft, fly-tipping and romance scams, and Rav meets the local heroes using their own time and resources to tackle these problems head-on. And there’s everything you need to know to keep yourself safe from the scammers.
Rav Wilding joins forces with ethical hackers to hunt down cyber criminals. Using the same remote-access technology that criminals use to scam their victims, the team hacks the hackers and monitors their operation.
A scam call centre is pretending to be a mobile provider to get control of UK phone accounts to steal customers' money. Can the Interceptors stop them?
A student thinks she is talking to an online retail company, who are warning her that hackers have bought a £900 phone on her account. Can the Interceptors make her realise the truth?
A woman thinks she is speaking to a card company's fraud department and that her debit card has been hacked. But she is actually talking to scammers, and they want her money.
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.
Scammers convince a woman to withdraw £2,000 in cash. Can the Interceptors stop her sending the money straight to the criminals?
The Interceptors go online dating and lure in a scammer. How will he react when he learns the truth? A family are made to believe there is a problem with their debit card.
Scammers are ringing UK landlines claiming to be from a major UK high-street bank and saying people's accounts have been hacked. Can the Interceptors stop people handing over cash?
It is the biggest scam call centre the team have ever come across, and one of its agents has lured in a man who believes he is talking to an internet retail giant.
A mother and daughter let scammers claiming to be from a retail giant take control of their mobile phone. The women think they are owed back money for a subscription they never wanted - but in fact, the scammers are about to steal their cash. It is up to Rav and the team to try to stop them.
A man believes he is talking to his mobile phone company - but in fact, they are scammers, and he is about to buy them a very expensive mobile phone.
It’s a race to the wire as the team try to stop one woman from transferring thousands of pounds of savings to the scammers.
The Interceptors face a nail-biting race to pull one woman out of the clutches of the scammers.
Scammers turn the air blue in the Scam Interceptors HQ, hurling a barrage of abuse at their victims.
The Interceptors race to protect one man’s £100,000 savings pot from scammers pretending to be from his bank. The team are forced to take drastic measures in an attempt to reach the victim in time and persuade him to hang up on the criminals. We also call up the fraudsters flogging fake cars online.
The race is on for Rav Wilding and his team as they try to protect an elderly man in a remote community from scammers.
The revelation that a woman might have withdrawn thousands of pounds in cash to post on to scammers has the team scrambling to locate her in central London before any money is lost. Rav also confronts the criminals behind the illegal activity.
The ground team are called into action to help a woman in the scammers' clutches. However, with the woman several hours’ drive away, the team are forced to rely on the help of friends and neighbours. We're also on the trail of the Taylor Swift ticket swindlers.
The team intercept scammers trying to convince a man that hackers are ordering thousands of pounds of iPhones on his Amazon account.
The team are forced into a tight spot as they try and reach a woman before she hands over hundreds of pounds in gift cards to scammers.
The team tap into scammers at a call centre in Jaipur, India, who are talking victims into posting money to UK addresses. The team play along and post a parcel of pretend cash to flush the fraudsters out and confront them with their crimes.
The team tap into a scam call centre in Jalandhar, north west India, that is trying to steal thousands from a woman in the UK. But the scammer slips up, revealing the address of a UK accomplice. Time to pay them a visit.
A giant scam call centre in Kolkata has convinced one woman they’re from her bank and that she needs to follow their instructions to save her money. The only thing the team can do is try to track down a relative in the hope of stopping the scammers.
The team battle the most ruthless scammer they’ve ever faced as they try to stop a man in Scotland from handing over £2,000 in cash. But can they disrupt the criminal they’ve nicknamed ‘the Closer’ for long enough to stop him sealing the deal?
The team investigates the shady world of romance fraudsters and play the scammers at their own game.
The team have intercepted a call centre claiming to be from Amazon. They’ve hooked in a man and are trying to get him to hand over his month’s rent money. If they reach him, they stop him losing out. Trouble is, it’s proving almost impossible to get through to him.
Scammers in Jaipur, India, are pretending to be from Visa and convincing victims into handing over their money. The team try to persuade an elderly woman to believe them and not the scammers, but it's proving tricky to break the spell. Time to call on the services of the ground interceptors.
Scammers pretending to be from Amazon have got a dental nurse on the line for thousands of pounds. Unable to get through on the phone, the ground interceptors chase across London to her place of work. Only problem is, she’s not there. Can they find her in time to stop the scam?
A telesales firm in Kolkata, India, is calling UK landlines, selling a telephone system that it claims can end the menace of scam calls forever. Except... it can’t. The team starts to unravel what they’re really selling and the British boss behind it all.
Scammers in eastern India have convinced a woman in the Lake District that her bank account has been compromised by criminals. They won’t take no for an answer, so it’s up to the ground interceptors to make sure they get the message across.
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. The team also investigate a series of video messages supposedly from Donny Osmond - can they be real?
Scammers try to transfer a man’s money directly to a Thai bank account. In desperation, the team dispatch the ground interceptors to the man’s home address.
The team tackle scammers posing as the UK’s National Crime Agency to scare their targets into giving them money.
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.
The ground team are scrambled in a desperate bid to stop a man handing over hundreds of pounds to broadband scammers.
The interceptors take on scammers posing as the police, who even use fake recordings of walkie-talkie chatter to frighten their targets into believing they are genuinely speaking to the authorities.
Scammers are about to swindle a woman in a care home in Sussex. To save her money, the team need to find out which one she’s in.
A scammer pretending to be from Microsoft tries to swindle a woman. Her only chance of saving her money is if the team can find a neighbour willing to help her out.
Cruel scammers force a woman into missing a vital medical appointment under the pretence that her internet is being hacked by criminals.
A scammer weasels their way into a man’s computer, taking photos of his credit cards and getting access to his online banking account. Can the team stop him transferring his cash?
Can the ground team cross London and reach a local supermarket in time to stop a couple buying gift cards for scammers?
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.
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 claiming to be phone company BT have a couple in Yorkshire on the hook for thousands of pounds.
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.
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.
