Claimed and Shamed

A man who lost his brother to Covid is jailed after trying to cash in life insurance he had taken out in his dead sibling's name. A driver making a bogus claim is caught out on number plate recognition cameras, driving his vehicle when it should have been off the road.

The case of a serial scammer that proves crime doesn't pay. After trying to swindle £75,000 with fake claims for ruined holidays, this chancer finds himself on a different kind of break – roughing it behind bars. And the curious case of the claim made for a payout in the name of a man who wasn't even there.

A holidaymaker is sent packing when his £12,000 claim for a cancelled trip abroad is discovered to be a flight of fancy. A bogus claim for a car crash hits the skids when the car's smart technology reveals what really happened. A shaggy tale about dodgy pet insurance for a poorly pooch is pulled apart by investigators. And a legal eagle gets his wings clipped when his injury claim for £20,000 is exposed as a pack of lies.

A chef who made an outrageously high claim by exaggerating his injuries after a genuine workplace accident finds himself in hot water. A dangerous driver who stopped his car in the middle of a roundabout for no apparent reason has the brakes slammed on his bogus claim after he's caught out on CCTV. A hotel owner who blagged tens of thousands of pounds in income protection, claiming he was too ill to work, ends up on the wrong side of the law when undercover investigators catch him on camera looking fighting fit. A budding barrister who used his legal know-how to make a bogus injury claim comes unstuck when investigators finally uncover the truth. And a semi-professional footballer scores an own goal when his dodgy claim for injuries after a car crash is undone by his social media posts.

A special episode featuring some of our most shocking insurance cheat cases from across the years, dug deep from our archives. The shameless serial scammer, finally caught out and sent behind bars after making fraudulent claims for tens of thousands of pounds. The men who made millions by deliberately causing car accidents and endangering innocent lives. A victim who claimed an accident had left him terrified of heights blows his claim out of the water when he posts pictures of himself at the top of Europe's highest water slide. The busted con man whose quarter of a million pound injury claim is exposed as a fake. And a customer loses his cool with call centre staff when he doesn't get the payout he's after.