Scam Interceptors

{{short description|British television series}} {{Use British English|date=May 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox television | image = | runtime = | creator = | developer = | producer = Sherry Knight<ref name = "BBC Ep1">{{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</ref> | executive_producer = Rowland Stone<ref name = "Guardian 2023-04-28">{{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}}</ref> | presenter = Rav Wilding <br>Nick Stapleton<ref name = "Guardian 2023-04-28"/><ref name = "BBC Ep1"/> | starring = Jim Browning<ref name = "Guardian 2023-04-28"/> | country = United Kingdom | language = English | network = BBC One | first_aired = {{start date|2022|4|4|df=y}}<ref name = "BBC Ep1"/> | last_aired = present | num_series = 5 | num_episodes = 62 | list_episodes = | related = }} '''''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.<ref name = "Guardian 2023-04-28"/><ref name = "BBC 2023-04-25"/> The programme has a greater focus on the victims and preventing actual live scams taking place than the ''Panorama'' episode.<ref name = "Guardian 2023-04-28"/> The show is filmed mostly inside the BBC Pacific Quay studios in Glasgow.

== Format == In the programme, the television team finds telephone scams that are in progress, and sends calls and texts to victims to alert them.<ref name = "Guardian 2023-04-28"/><ref name = "BBC 2023-04-25"/> The first series of ''Scam Interceptors'' featured Crimewatch-style additional content,<ref name = "Guardian 2023-04-28"/> and revealed that most fraud in the United Kingdom was perpetrated from industrial-scale scamming call centres in Asia.<ref>{{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}}</ref> The second series, released in 2023, also identifies individuals involved in scamming.<ref name = "BBC 2023-04-25">{{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}}</ref><ref name = "Belfast 2023-04-21">{{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}}</ref>

==Awards== ''Scam Interceptors'' was nominated for a BAFTA Award for best daytime show in 2023.<ref name = "Guardian 2023-04-28"/><ref name = "Belfast 2023-04-21"/> A repeat of series one was aired during primetime.<ref name = "Guardian 2023-04-28"/>

In May 2024, ''Scam Interceptors'' won the Daytime award for best daytime series at the 2024 British Academy Television Awards.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

''Scam Interceptors'' won a BAFTA Television Award for best daytime show in 2026.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2026/bafta-tv-awards-bbc-winners|title=BBC leads the 2026 BAFTA Television Awards with 12 wins|website=bbc.co.uk/mediacentre|date=11 May 2026|accessdate=11 May 2026}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m00164f1/scam-interceptors Programme Web site with list of episodes], updated as required.

Category:2022 British television series debuts 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 Category:English-language British television shows Category:BAFTA winners (television series)