May 28, 2026 · 28 min · 9 segments
A roofer's at your door - they've spotted a couple of loose tiles and they can fix them straight away. It's only a quick job. Would you know what to do? Almost all of the scams we've dissected so far…
Tim DayGuest
Alex WoodHostThey transfer into the digital sphere, but we must remember that they started out in person.
...and you also pretended to be an aristocrat to stay in fancy hotels in London, and you were jailed for both-
Even in twenty twenty-six, it's not like this is a kind of niche branch of fraud, is it?
The charity Citizens Advice pulled out some figures for us, and last year, of the twenty-one thousand scam complaints that they received, nearly eight thousand were classed as face to face or in person.
Complaints about roofing were by far the biggest type of in-person scam, so we have more on that in a second.
So we want to look at the parallels with the online scams that people experience and also the different challenges when you're faced with a criminal who's actually looking you in the eye.
They transfer into the digital sphere, but we must remember that they started out in person.
...and you also pretended to be an aristocrat to stay in fancy hotels in London, and you were jailed for both-
Even in twenty twenty-six, it's not like this is a kind of niche branch of fraud, is it?
The charity Citizens Advice pulled out some figures for us, and last year, of the twenty-one thousand scam complaints that they received, nearly eight thousand were classed as face to face or in person.
Complaints about roofing were by far the biggest type of in-person scam, so we have more on that in a second.
So we want to look at the parallels with the online scams that people experience and also the different challenges when you're faced with a criminal who's actually looking you in the eye.
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