Series 8

Season 8 · 2016 · 20 episodes

Angela Rippon and the team expose some of the rip-offs that are costing British consumers.

1Episode 1The team start with a particularly nasty case that saw one woman cheated out of £90,000.
2Episode 2The team meets a couple whose builders caused the entire house to collapse.
3Episode 3How many of the miraculous claims made for top-selling shampoos are really true?
4Episode 4Star Wars actor Mark Hamill reveals how he is taking on the fraudsters making big money from conning fans.
5Episode 5Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the safety of tumble dryers.
6Episode 6Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate new threats to your personal details.
7Episode 7Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate complaints about charities.
8Episode 8Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville ask why car dealers don't always give correct information.
9Episode 9With a look at safeguards Britain's online stores have in place to stop children buying products aimed at adults.
10Episode 10The team investigate why so many people have had problems trying to get faster broadband in their homes.
11Episode 11The team examine a computer threat that could see your files held to ransom and made inaccessible unless you pay up.
12Episode 12The team meet people who have all found ways to reduce what they previously paid on household bills.
13Episode 13The team expose the secret sales techniques used to pressure more vulnerable customers into buying products they simply can't afford.
14Episode 14The team meet viewers whose purchases have had an unwelcome sting, including homeowners desperate to know why their homes have flooded.
15Episode 15The team investigate if the price-match promises from some of the country's biggest retailers could come with a catch.
16Episode 16With fake job scams on the rise, the team unpicks how the fraudsters make their ads so plausible - thanks to actors posing as employers.
17Episode 17Why residents desperate to get the condition of their roads up to scratch will only be able to do it by forking out thousands of pounds themselves.
18Episode 18The team uncovers how the billing mistakes of one mobile phone giant have caused customers months of misery.
19Episode 19The team investigates cases where viewers haven't had what they paid for, including a big name music concert that went wrong from the start.
20Episode 20The team discovers how a business supposed to help people manage their debts left them owing more than they had in the first place.

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