A special episode featuring some of the most shocking insurance cheat cases from across the years, dug deep from our archives. An American ex-wife who’s the beneficiary of a life insurance policy seeks deadly revenge after a bitter divorce. The catalogue of lies told by a woman claiming she could barely walk when it was anything but the case. The fraudsters perpetrating a racket worth millions, buying up empty wine bars with the sole intention of causing damage they could claim big money for. The con man blatantly fabricating his bogus damage claim by crashing his own car in broad daylight. And cold-hearted fraudsters putting innocent drivers’ lives at risk by engineering deliberate high-speed crashes on the motorway.
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Series 15: 15. Most Shocking
A special episode featuring some of our most shocking insurance cheat cases from across the years, dug deep from our archives. The shameless serial scammer, finally caught out a ...
08-12-2023
BBC 1
Series 15: Episode 14
A chef who made an outrageously high claim by exaggerating his injuries after a genuine workplace accident finds himself in hot water. A dangerous driver who stopped his car in ...
07-12-2023
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Series 15: Episode 13
A holidaymaker is sent packing when his £12,000 claim for a cancelled trip abroad is discovered to be a flight of fancy. A bogus claim for a car crash hits the skids when ...
06-12-2023
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Series 15: Episode 12
A man who lost his brother to Covid is jailed after trying to cash in life insurance he had taken out in his dead sibling’s name. A driver making a bogus claim is caught o ...
05-12-2023
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Series 15: Episode 11
A young woman who tried to cover up a car crash with a catalogue of tall tales calls up to confess. A claim for £100,000, made by a factory worker injured at work, is expo ...
04-12-2023
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Series 15: 10. Most Shocking
A special episode featuring some of the most shocking insurance cheat cases from across the years, dug deep from our archives. An American ex-wife who’s the beneficiary of ...
01-12-2023
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Series 15: Episode 9
A DJ’s injury claim hits the deck when online posts show he’s been spinning a tall tale. Phone woes – a driver demanding a cash payout after a minor collision ...
30-11-2023
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Series 15: Episode 8
A claim for a quarter of a million euros goes up in flames when a holiday fire in France turns out to be all smoke and mirrors. A martial arts expert’s case is given the c ...
29-11-2023
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Series 15: Episode 7
Keeping it all in the family – a vast organised network of scammers is exposed, revealing fraud on an industrial scale. A van driver’s spurious claim hits the skids ...
28-11-2023
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Series 15: Episode 6
A father and son who get caught up in a police chase find themselves on the wrong side of the law after making bogus claims. During lockdown, when the streets across the country ...
27-11-2023
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Series 13: Episode 7
An arson-for-cash case ends tragically when a child is caught in the blaze, and social media posts about a hiking trip stops a personal injury claim in its tracks.
23-11-2021
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Series 14: Episode 15
A woman pursuing a £10,000 payout after falling feet first into a drain finds herself in a real hole when her story doesn’t add up. Three burglaries in three years & ...
06-10-2023
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Series 2: Episode 8
A couple's claim for their burnt-out pub goes up in smoke; an Olympic boxing fantasist is caught out trying to make hundreds of thousands of pounds' worth of fake car insurance ...
09-12-2014
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Series 14: Episode 8
Insurance cheats come under the spotlight of the investigators. Today, a pet owner who can’t get his story straight about his dogs’ disappearance, and a serial scamm ...
25-09-2023
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Series 11: Episode 12
A chip shop worker is well and truly battered after his attempt to cash in with a self-induced personal injury is caught on CCTV and an impatient motorist claiming against a bus ...
10-12-2021
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Series 12 (shortened Versions): Episode 4
A suspiciously unlucky computer user is caught out after making multiple claims for lost laptops, while an elaborate scam to claim for stolen jewellery is foiled. A minor traffi ...
07-10-2021
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Series 13: Episode 9
A film on social media of a paragliding holidaymaker puts an end to his personal injury claim, and the fraud inspectors blow the whistle on a claim for stolen model steam engines.
02-03-2023
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