THE stars of Gogglebox were filled with anger watching an 80-year-old woman almost get scammed.
On the most recent episode of the Channel 4 reality series, the stars were shown a segment from the BBC programme Scam Interceptors.
The BBC show is hosted by Rav Wilding, who along with ethical hackers use technology to hack scammers’ illegal call centres, to try and stop being scammed in real time.
The segment on Friday's Gogglebox showed how a scammer contacted the elderly woman who was living in a wheel chair in a care home pretending to be a representative from online retailer, Amazon.
He managed to convince her to download software onto her computer that allowed him to see her screen after lying that people were trying to buy an iPhone through her account.
Then as he gave her instructions to log in to her online banking, the scammer was able to see her login details.
But Rav and his team were able to crash the scammer's computer to end the call with the elderly woman and call her to inform her what happened and how she'd just missed out on being defrauded.
During the segment, the Gogglebox stars heard how the woman was served her lunch in the care home and asked for her meat to be cut up for her to make it easier to eat.
They also saw how the scammer warned the elderly woman to not speak to the nurse in her room about what she was speaking about on the phone.
"You scumbag," yelled South East Londoner, Ronnie, in disgust.
Other Goggleboxers were also enraged at what they were watching.
Sisters Amira and Amani Rota, also voiced their disgust with Amira saying she'd love to be a scam interceptor to stop scammers in their tracks.
"I would say to them 'I know your home address... I will find you,' I would Liam Neeson that s***," Amira said, referring to the actor's action character in the Taken film series.
She said of the scammer on the TV series: "You're going to hell."
Hull-based, Lee Riley put it simply: "You f*****."
Scams cost the elderly an average of nearly £4,000 each, according to 2024 research from older people’s charity Independent Age.
BY keeping these tips in mind, you can avoid getting caught up in a scam:
The charity urged banks to do more to protect their customers because its research found around 1.9 million older people in the U.K have been scammed.
"This means that people in later life are being defrauded to an eye-watering total of nearly £7.4 billion," according to Independent Age.
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