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 10: Episode 15
A jewellery lover with form loses her sparkle when the companies she targets identify multiple scams, while a hungry hotel guest outstays his welcome by faking an injury. Disast ...
22-11-2019
BBC 1
Series 10: Episode 8
The gravity of the situation hits home for an opportunist forced to come clean when investigators foil his attempted fraud, and an insurer is faced with a case of a mysterious p ...
24-10-2018
BBC 1
Series 3 - Episode 6
Series which sees insurance fraudsters caught on camera. Investigators encounter a canine roadblock while on a 'snatch-back' mission to reclaim a luxury hire car.
16-06-2014
BBC 1
Series 12 (shortened Versions): Episode 1
Insurers combine forces to catch a serial fraudster making fake insurance claims off the back of high-profile tragedies, while an adrenaline junkie showing off on social media f ...
04-10-2021
BBC 1
Series 1 - Episode 10
Documentary series. A supposedly injured man is seen displaying surprisingly athletic abilities, and a company's state-of-the-art technology catches would-be fraudsters in the act.
03-07-2014
BBC 1
Series 10: Episode 13
Undercover filming exposes one man's attempt to cheat his way to a one-million-pound payout, while a claimant's photography skills come under scrutiny as she attempts to claim f ...
20-11-2019
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