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. Compared to the Panorama episode, the programme has a greater focus on the victims and preventing actual live scams taking place.
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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 the majority of fraud in the United Kingdom was perpetrated from industrial-scale scamming call centres in Asia. The second series, released in 2023, also identifies individuals involved in scamming.
Scam Interceptors was nominated for a BAFTA award for best daytime show in 2023. A repeat of series one was aired during primetime.