Stopping Scotland's Scammers

All Episodes 2015 - 2018

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  • 2015-08-10T19:00:00Z
  • 30m
  • 5h (10 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • Documentary
With a 14% increase in cases in the last year, fraudsters are on the increase in Scotland and they are finding new ways to con innocent people out of their hard earned cash. Not all victims fit the stereotype of who we would expect to be scammed, like vulnerable sections of society. New evidence actually shows that 31 to 40 year olds are the most likely group to be repeat victims of cons. New forms of financial scams are appearing online all the time including ‘romance scams' and ‘fake government websites'. While the Internet has become one of the main tools for scammers, postal contact and over the telephone still remains a major opportunity for con artists. In the series of three 30 minute programmes, STV will highlight the increasing rise in financial scams and inform the public how they can better protect themselves against fraud, using real-life case studies to illustrate the extent of the issue.

11 episodes

Series Premiere

2015-08-10T19:00:00Z

1x01 Episode 1

Series Premiere

1x01 Episode 1

  • 2015-08-10T19:00:00Z30m

Lorna - who paid a deposit on a flat that never existed - and Kristine, whose mother was a victim of a telephone prize scam.

1x02 Episode 2

  • no air date30m

Telephone banking fraud, subscription traps, hacking and text spoofing are all used by fraudsters to part you from your pounds - learn how to avoid them.

Season Premiere

2017-05-05T19:00:00Z

3x01 Episode 1

Season Premiere

3x01 Episode 1

  • 2017-05-05T19:00:00Z30m

Presenter Jackie Brambles meets victims of scams and the experts who provide practical advice on security. In this episode, the Glasgow-based gang who defrauded their victims out of 113 million pounds, a group of friends pay for an event that does not materialise and a carer robs a pensioner of their life savings.

2017-05-12T19:00:00Z

3x02 Episode 2

3x02 Episode 2

  • 2017-05-12T19:00:00Z30m

Presenter Jackie Brambles meets victims of scams and the experts who provide practical advice on security. In this episode, the scam text that nearly ruined Christmas for a dad and his son, the scammers who robbed an Ayrshire couple of the campervan of their dreams, the postmen making a stand against scam mail and landlord fraud - and how the prospective tenants are being ripped off for the rent.

2017-05-19T19:00:00Z

3x03 Episode 3

3x03 Episode 3

  • 2017-05-19T19:00:00Z30m

Presenter Jackie Brambles meets victims of scams and the experts who provide practical advice on security. In this episode, the scammers who took over one lady's home computer and stole her life savings, the lottery scam that never pays out, how the authorities are clamping down on the illegal puppy trade and the removal man duped out of 5,000 pounds.

2017-05-26T19:00:00Z

3x04 Episode 4

3x04 Episode 4

  • 2017-05-26T19:00:00Z30m

Presenter Jackie Brambles meets victims of scams and the experts who provide practical advice on security. In this episode, why teenagers who go online are easy prey to the scammers, the con that stole a pensioner's dream, the lady left distraught after the scammers accessed her computer, and inheritance scams - how one pensioner lost 200,000 pounds to fraudsters.

Season Premiere

2018-09-03T19:00:00Z

4x01 Episode 1

Season Premiere

4x01 Episode 1

  • 2018-09-03T19:00:00Z30m

We can all become the victim of scammers. Each year, scammers cost Scots millions of pounds. This series hopes to play an essential role in Stopping Scotland's Scammers.

2018-09-10T19:00:00Z

4x02 Episode 2

4x02 Episode 2

  • 2018-09-10T19:00:00Z30m

We can all become the victim of scammers. Each year, scammers cost Scots millions of pounds. This series hopes to play an essential role in Stopping Scotland's Scammers. This week a look into the increasing rise in financial scams.

2018-09-17T19:00:00Z

4x03 Episode 3

4x03 Episode 3

  • 2018-09-17T19:00:00Z30m

We can all become the victim of scammers. Each year, scammers cost Scots millions of pounds. This series hopes to play an essential role in Stopping Scotland's Scammers. This week we look at some disturbing financial scams.

2018-09-24T19:00:00Z

4x04 Episode 4

4x04 Episode 4

  • 2018-09-24T19:00:00Z30m

We can all become the victim of scammers. Each year, scammers cost Scots millions of pounds. This series hopes to play an essential role in Stopping Scotland's Scammers.

2018-11-19T20:00:00Z

4x05 Episode 5

4x05 Episode 5

  • 2018-11-19T20:00:00Z30m

We can all become the victim of scammers. Each year, scammers cost Scots millions of pounds. This series hopes to play an essential role in Stopping Scotland's Scammers. This episode looks at the many scams around during the period of Black Friday when a bargain is not always a bargain.

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