Claimed and Shamed

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 forgets that her antics can be seen by everyone, including those investigating her personal injury claim. Digital data embedded in photographs submitted to support a claim for £35,000 of stolen jewellery reveal that it’s a complete lie, and a cat owner grossly inflates a claim when she loses two of her moggies.

Fraudsters put innocent drivers' lives at risk by engineering crashes on public roads, while a chancer’s pretend tumble over a pothole is uncovered for what it really is. Police expose an extraordinary fraudster who uses insider knowledge to rip off insurers, investigators uncover the devious mileage-clocking methods used by an organized crime ring, and in America a preacher commits the ultimate sin to cash in on his wife’s life insurance policy.

We go behind bars when a prison inmate claims he had a weightlifting accident in the gym, while there’s trouble in store for one supermarket when a group of women stage a fall. Forensic engineers are called in to establish what really happened in a collision between a scooter and a car, and when a Rolex gets ruined, the claimant has problems recalling his timings.

It’s a family affair when two sisters try to cheat their insurers following a car crash, while a suspiciously unlucky computer user is caught out after making multiple claims for lost laptops. A minor traffic collision results in four personal injury claims, but a witness reveals it was a work of fiction, and in the USA, CCTV trips up an opportunistic scammer.

CCTV shows what really happened when car passengers claim to be hurt badly after being hit by a bus, while a prisoner's bogus claim for an injury on a running machine is scuppered.

Secret filming is the undoing of a con man who claims he can't work due to an injury, while a cat lover comes a cropper attempting to make a claim when she wasn't covered.

A man commended for bravery falls from grace when CCTV shows he lied about being hit by a bus, while a holiday insurance scam is foiled when investigators uncover forged documents.

A bishop faces judgement when he unsuccessfully tries to pull off a £12,000 car scam, while a woman's claim that metal shards were found in her takeaway bites back.

CCTV footage catches out a woman claiming she tripped on a loose paving stone, while information embedded in a digital photo scuppers an attempted scam for lost jewellery.

A woman claiming she tripped on a loose paving stone as she pushed her toddler in a buggy is caught out by CCTV footage that reveals the truth, while a devious driver hopes that treacherous and icy conditions will disguise his deliberate attempts to make an innocent motorist crash into his car. Digital information embedded in a photo catches out a chancer who claims they’ve lost valuable jewellery at a funeral, and an athlete’s claim for devastating injuries caused by a pothole is scuppered when he is caught on camera ripping it up at the rugby pitch.

When a bus and a bin lorry collide there are claims for injury, but will the bus company trash them? And technology you would normally find in an aeroplane is used to foil a bogus car claim.

An amateur detective turns the tables on fraudsters running a crash-for-cash scam, and fur flies as a woman claiming her pedigree cat has been stolen is caught out by social media.

A fraudster feigns innocence when caught scamming a holiday company, while CCTV shows that an employee claiming compensation was actually drunk when he fell.

Jail time awaits an organised of fraudsters causing serious danger on our roads, and CCTV puts a dent in a claim for injuries sustained by a falling roof tile.

A gang of fraudsters sober up when their million-pound wine bar insurance racket is uncovered, and insurers receive a bizarre claim after a dog damages an expensive surgical bed.