Scam Interceptors (Series on BBC1 in the UK) (Patreon)
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Hi folks,
I know this is probably going to annoy non-UK people, but I've been involved in a BBC TV series called 'Scam Interceptors'. It's basically about people battling against scammers and it features a team of people doing very similar work to my own. In fact, I set up the BBC's computer access so that they could see and hear the scammers.
They could access a very large call centre; one which was too large for me to handle on my own, so they did me a favour in a few ways:
- They could intercept the calls which I couldn't
- Because this is on TV, it reaches an audience which I cannot
For this reason, I gave my time very freely and willingly - even though it took a fair bit of effort (many weeks on and off), the crew were able to record and intercept lots of scam calls and even saved a good number of people from losing thousands of pounds/dollars.
The BBC are protective of their "UK access" to these TV programs, but if you use a UK VPN, it should be possible to see the first in a series of programs here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00164dz/scam-interceptors-series-1-episode-1
I only feature in it for a few minutes, but you'll see that I have had a large amount of input to the programme; it reflects exactly the kind of work I show on my normal videos.
If you can access it, please enjoy. If you can't, there's a little bit of advice on how to avoid the region lockout here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/questions/playback-issues/outside-uk-message
I hope you're able to see the first of these episodes.
I'm afraid I can't re-post the video as it's the BBC's copyright, but hopefully you can work around the region locking.
Jim