ITV Documentaries

The Million Dollar Fraudsters - How They Steal Your ID (2016x16)

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In this new documentary for ITV, detectives hunt an elusive major criminal who has hijacked the credit card accounts and identities of hundreds of British victims. “Fraudsters will pose as whoever they need to be to elicit personal details from you. Whether they portray themselves on the phone to be a banking institution or some other corporate organisation, whatever they need to be they will be in order to commit fraud.” – Det. Chief Supt. David Clark, the City Of London Police. In this new documentary for ITV, detectives hunt an elusive major criminal who has hijacked the credit card accounts and identities of hundreds of British victims. Dubbed by detectives as ‘Mr Posh’, he is a master of disguise and accents. Every day he telephones the banks posing as different customers, impersonating everyone from a female pensioner to an Asian businessman. He’s tricked the banks and traumatised his victims, stealing tens of thousands of pounds a day. ‘Mr Posh’ has mastered a new crime known as telephone banking fraud, which increased by 95 per cent in the first six months of 2015 and resulted in thousands of British victims collectively losing over £14 million. With only a voice to go on, capturing ‘Mr Posh’ will not be easy. Over six months detectives from the City of London and Metropolitan Police use cutting-edge technology and good old-fashioned police work to unmask and capture an evasive criminal. Fraud - How They Steal Your ID is produced by Wild Pictures, the company behind acclaimed ITV documentariesHMP Aylesbury, Strangeways, Fraud Squad and Abducted. The documentary has exclusive access to the Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit. Funded by the banks, detectives from the City of London and Metropolitan Police form a specialist unit who target the major criminals attacking our bank and credit card accounts. The big new threat the unit is facing is the so-called dark web. Stolen UK credit and debit cards are free