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The `Rip-Off Britain' team of Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville works on exposing and rectifying the nation's consumer nightmares. The presenters take submissions from viewers who feel they have been ripped off, and undertake their own investigation into the situation. From utilities and personal finance to shopping, housing, travel and charity bag collections, no potential rip-off is too small for their inquiring eyes and minds. The least they hope for is answers, but they also hope to restore consumers' cash when they can.
The team investigate the fake tenants who turned a home into a cannabis farm.
Water bills are going up, but what’s it all being spent on? The team meet residents furious at water bills increasing by 47 per cent.
My conservatory roof shattered, but no-one’s taking responsibility. The team help one family who narrowly escaped when their conservatory roof shattered.
The team help people paying a monthly contract for smartphones that were never delivered.
The team help a couple who paid thousands to terminate their timeshare membership.
The team investigate a fraudster’s spending spree via mobile phone payments.
The team investigate a brazen car scam targeting private sellers on their own driveway.
Nail glue took my daughter’s skin off. The team investigate the dangerous cosmetics for sale in online marketplaces.
Super-scam cost me £750,000. The team investigate a shocking scam that cost one grandmother £750,000.
The team investigate why travellers to Cape Verde were left with gastric illnesses.
The team investigate the addictive shopping app, where one user ordered nearly 500 items.
Fire safety upgrades – who should foot the bill? The team explore who’s liable to pay for fire safety upgrades in a block of flats.
Holiday and experience gift vouchers – are they worth it?
Scammer posed as my mum – while she sat next to me. How fraudsters infiltrate WhatsApp groups to target users’ friends and family.
Luxury resort turned out to be a building site. The team investigate the holidays ruined by noisy construction work.
The first-time buyers who discovered knotweed neither the seller nor the survey declared.
How sending a parcel cost one man more than £1,000.
The man who had to do his own maths to prove his energy company’s huge bills were wrong.
I took out a family trust to protect my kids, but now I regret it. They took advice to protect their assets, but now wish they had not set up a family trust.
The couple left stranded abroad with no protection when their holiday company collapsed.
Insurer says I’m wrong about having cancer. The life insurer disputing one woman's medical diagnosis, meaning she can’t make a claim.
How a poorly placed telegraph pole left one resident’s car trapped behind their home.
The Scottish lodge I invested in didn’t exist. The investment scheme fraudulently using a household name in holiday lodges.
The electric vehicle drivers unable to access cheaper tariffs for charging their cars.
The holidaymakers who say that their breaks fell far short of what was promised.
Why did scammers use 12 addresses on one street to open bogus bank accounts?
The online love affair that left one woman broken-hearted and cost her thousands.
Help! Is my online job a scam? The team intervene when a viewer’s job is suspected of being a scam.
I was part of the world’s largest scam. The international network of scammers with 32,000 victims. Are you among them?
A man faces fines and a bailiff visit after his address is used by a fraudster.