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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.cite-ref-guardian-2023-04-28-1-3[1]cite-ref-bbc-2023-04-25-3-0[3] The programme has a greater focus on the victims and preventing actual live scams taking place than the Panorama episode.cite-ref-guardian-2023-04-28-1-4[1] The show is filmed mostly inside the BBC Pacific Quay studios in Glasgow.

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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.cite-ref-guardian-2023-04-28-1-5[1]cite-ref-bbc-2023-04-25-3-1[3] The first series of Scam Interceptors featured Crimewatch-style additional content,cite-ref-guardian-2023-04-28-1-6[1] and revealed that most fraud in the United Kingdom was perpetrated from industrial-scale scamming call centres in Asia.cite-ref-4[4] The second series, released in 2023, also identifies individuals involved in scamming.cite-ref-bbc-2023-04-25-3-2[3]cite-ref-belfast-2023-04-21-5-0[5]

Scam Interceptors was nominated for a BAFTA Award for best daytime show in 2023.cite-ref-guardian-2023-04-28-1-7[1]cite-ref-belfast-2023-04-21-5-1[5] A repeat of series one was aired during primetime.cite-ref-guardian-2023-04-28-1-8[1]

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

cite-note-guardian-2023-04-28-11. citerefjack2023Jack, 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.

cite-note-bbc-ep1-21. "BBC One - Scam Interceptors, Series 1, Episode 1". BBC. Retrieved 8 May 2023. First broadcast 4 April 2022

cite-note-bbc-2023-04-25-33. ↑ "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.

cite-note-44. ↑ citerefdathan2023Dathan, Matt (10 April 2023). "Labour vows to bar foreign scam callers using UK numbers". The Times. Retrieved 8 May 2023.

cite-note-belfast-2023-04-21-55. ↑ citereftunney2023Tunney, Liam (21 April 2023). "Scam-busting NI YouTuber teams up with BBC series to help expose con artists". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 8 May 2023.

cite-note-66. ↑ "BAFTA Television 2024: The Winners and Nominations". bafta.org. Retrieved 8 August 2024.

• Programme Web site with list of episodes, updated as required.

• citerefsemuels-alana2024Semuels, Alana (18 September 2024). "Welcome to the Golden Age of Scams". Time. Archived from the original on 18 September 2024.