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 and sent behind bars after making fraudulent claims for tens of thousands of pounds. The men who made millions by deliberately causing car accidents and endangering innocent lives. A victim who claimed an accident had left him terrified of heights blows his claim out of the water when he posts pictures of himself at the top of Europe’s highest water slide. The busted con man whose quarter of a million pound injury claim is exposed as a fake. And a customer loses his cool with call centre staff when he doesn’t get the payout he’s after.
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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
BBC 1
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
BBC 1
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
BBC 1
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
BBC 1
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
BBC 1
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
BBC 1
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
BBC 1
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
BBC 1
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
BBC 1
Series 13: Episode 4
Investigators turn tables on a woman claiming £690,000 for personal injury after surveillance shows she’s living life to the full, and a DIY disaster is put under sc ...
28-02-2023
BBC 1
Series 10 (30 Minute Versions): Episode 11
Undercover filming exposes one man's attempt to cheat his way to a £1,000,000 pay-out while a claimant's photography skills come under scrutiny as she attempts to claim fo ...
03-04-2020
BBC 1
Series 10: Episode 5
Officers from the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department travel to Las Vegas as they investigate a tip-off about a woman impersonating her deceased mother to cash in on insuranc ...
22-10-2018
BBC 1
Series 12 (shortened Versions): Episode 6
Secret filming is the undoing of a con man claiming he can’t work due to an injury, while elderly drivers are ruthlessly targeted in a car park crash scam. A first-time bu ...
11-10-2021
BBC 1
Series 11: Episode 2
One fraudster is left bankrupt and behind bars when his attempt at a crash for cash scam backfires badly, while questions are raised after a high-end watch reported stolen is fo ...
06-12-2021
BBC 1
Series 9: Episode 2
A motorist with a genuine claim is left out of pocket when forensic engineers discover that he has used a hammer to grossly exaggerate the damage to his vehicle, and a prisoner' ...
05-11-2019
BBC 1
Series 10 (30 Minute Versions): Episode 8
The gravity of the situation hits home for an opportunist who is forced to come clean when investigators foil his attempted fraud, while it is back to basics for another would-b ...
18-07-2019
BBC 1
Series 10 (30 Minute Versions): Episode 3
A woman ends up behind bars when the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department crack a fake death scam that also implicated her own son to cash in on a life insurance policy. A cla ...
11-07-2019
BBC 1