A 'race across the show' today with:

🕵️Nick Stapleton on AI generated deepfakes
🧥How to stop moths eating your clothes
🪙Safely donating to charity Angela Rippon
🌎BBC's 'Race Across the World' returns

Watch here: bbc.in/3vKzsvI

I posted this...scammers immediately set up accounts pretending to be
@edreams
&
@icelandair
.I totally missed the different spellings! Gave them my number and a guy called me to get me to download
WorldRemit
to 'cancel and rebook flights' by sending money to Kenya!

Kind of amazing that senior politicians have been caught up in what is effectively a reversion of a Hi Mum scam.

You would think they’d all be briefed to within an inch of their lives on red flags etc. If anyone in Whitehall would like some pointers drop me a line… 🥲

Clearly going to be a run on Companies House registrations before the Corporate Transparency Act transfer window slams shut in early 2025.

Director Mr A Launderer to Scammer FC Ltd on a 5 year contract, no ID needed.

Definitely won’t lead to mass unchecked criminality will it

If you haven't seen the story about the fake banking app being used to defraud people face to face when paying for items up for sale on Facebook Marketplace, it's here:

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

I will be talking about this and other scams on BBC Bristol radio at about 08.20

I'll be joining @bbccornwall radio at around 7.30 to talk about current scams and some red flags to watch out for - if you're in that gorgeous part of the world do join.

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Public has no right to swim in sea, claims firm that dumped sewage at bathing spot.
As South West Water defends a court action from Devon swimmer, it also claims it has no legal duty to keep waters clean.
By me for i newspaper
inews.co.uk/news/environme…
#SewageScandal

Thank you so much for the kind words about our Royal Television Society award last night.

It really does mean a great deal to the whole #ScamInterceptors team to have this kind of recognition.

We might even be back for another in May at the BAFTAs…

.Nick Stapleton, Rav Wilding and the Daytime Programme award-winning Scam Interceptors team on continuing the fight for victims of scams #RTSAwards

#ScamInterceptors are 2/2 for the year’s awards. Madness. So proud of the team

🚨 SCOOP 🚨

In unprecedented warrants, US agents repeatedly asked Google to provide names, addresses, phone numbers of ALL users who watched certain YouTube videos.

The vids have thousands of views.

'Terrifying' and 'unconstitutional,' say critics.

forbes.com/sites/thomasbr…

Hey everyone. sara cox💙 tells me her X account has been hacked. Please don’t trust anything that comes out for the moment until she regains control. And share this with everyone if you can. Ta!

'I think it's a national scandal that we've not been more on top of this.'

Nick Stapleton discusses how government can get better at tackling fraud.

Watch or listen to the full event 📺🎧instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/governme…

WE. ARE. BACK.

Two years in a row is crazy. What a privilege and what a way to pay tribute to the amazing team behind the show.

We’re in esteemed company but who knows maybe we’ll do it this year ❤️

#ScamInterceptors