Documentary series following the dedicated fraud-fighters pursuing the criminals who steal over £50 billion a year from the UK’s public purse. \n\nIn this episode, a golf professional turns professional scammer to steal thousands from his employers, the public and even a charity, a man claims to suffer with severe disabilities, only to be caught on camera performing as an Elvis impersonator, and a brazen fraudster invents 188 fake children to claim child tax credits worth nearly £2 million.
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Series 6: Episode 10
Featuring the case of a shopfitter who dodged a whopping £2.5 million in tax to splurge on luxury cars and holidays. HMRC first started investigating after a routine inspe ...
25-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 9
An accountant takes on three different full-time jobs with the NHS – and manages to get paid for all of them, even though he’s barely carrying out the work of one. E ...
24-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 8
When a fire breaks out on an illegal waste site, it costs the taxpayer £500,000 in clean-up costs and unearths an operation responsible for a staggering £4 million i ...
23-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 7
A routine welfare check on a disability claimant exposes deception committed on a vast scale. The fraudster claimed high levels of benefits for 18 years, saying he was paraplegi ...
22-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 6
A trusted member of the finance team in a local authority dupes his colleagues into signing off fake paperwork so that he can transfer hundreds of thousands of pounds of public ...
21-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 5
The Environment Agency gets called in when a waste site flouts the rules and local residents start complaining. The facility is supposed to be a plastics recycling plant, but lo ...
18-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 4
The story of Britain’s biggest ever benefit fraud and how the fraudsters were brought to justice. It all started when staff at the Department for Work and Pensions noticed ...
17-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 3
The NHS Counter Fraud Authority investigates a shocking case of a trusted GP practice manager who fiddled the books for years to siphon hundreds of thousands of pounds into her ...
16-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 2
Trading Standards uncover a massive illegal puppy farm where animals are being used to make tens of thousands of pounds, not a penny of which is declared to the tax authorities. ...
15-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 1
Documentary series following the dedicated fraud fighters pursuing the criminals who steal billions of pounds a year from the public purse. \n\nIn this episode, the Environment ...
14-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 4
In this episode, a trusted NHS veteran steals equipment worth over £15,000 and then sells it online. A callous fraudster launches a malicious campaign of hoax 999 calls &n ...
15-08-2022
BBC 1
Series 5: Episode 1
Documentary series following the dedicated fraud-fighters pursuing the criminals who steal over £50 billion a year from the UK’s public purse.\n\nIn this episode, a ...
24-03-2025
BBC 1
Series 3 (shortened Versions): Episode 6
Police go undercover in a game of cat and mouse with a group of security guards suspected of stealing over £200,000 in cash from the parking meters in a hospital car park, ...
05-06-2023
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 2
In this episode, a trusted senior doctor abuses his position to steal nearly £70,000 from the NHS and his colleagues, and a family callously defrauds the benefits system f ...
10-08-2022
BBC 1
The Hunt (shortened Versions): Episode 10
The Fraud Squad hunts down a serial scam artist who fakes disability to claim thousands in insurance payouts, and they uncover the most prolific dental fraudster ever.
02-10-2020
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 8
A fraudster hands out public sector contracts worth over £1 million in return for kickbacks from his cronies, a mum is caught out fraudulently claiming disability benefits ...
19-08-2022
BBC 1
The Hunt: Episode 7
The Fraud Squad investigates a nurse ripping off thousands of pounds from the NHS, a lying and cheating boss of a recycling company who helped himself to £2 million of gov ...
24-05-2021
BBC 1
Series 5: Episode 6
A tax scam nets a pair of fraudsters over a million pounds to fund their luxurious lifestyle, a benefits cheat who claimed she couldn’t walk is so quick on her feet invest ...
01-04-2025
BBC 1
Series 3 (shortened Versions): Episode 10
A woman who claims she can barely move is caught out in spectacular style after claiming half a million pounds in benefits, and a council worker who embezzled more than £9 ...
09-06-2023
BBC 1
Series 5: Episode 8
Three brothers who run a hospitality empire decide to have their cake and eat it, at the taxpayer’s expense, to the tune of £3 million, all bets are off after invest ...
03-04-2025
BBC 1