Scam Interceptors

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.

Scam Interceptors
Presented by	Rav Wilding, Nick Stapleton[1][2]
Starring	Jim Browning[1]
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	46
Production
Executive producer	Rowland Stone[1]
Producer	Sherry Knight[2]
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	4 April 2022 (2022-04-04)[2] – present

Format

In the programme, the television team sends calls and texts to victims to alert them to scams as they are occurring.^[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

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]