ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Think you can spot a scam? Think again. The Scam Detectors Podcast unravels the increasingly sophisticated schemes separating people from their money - and how consumers and financial institutions are fighting back.
Hosted by technology journalist Jane Wakefield, each episode explores a different type of scam through the eyes of everyday people, fraud fighters, household names, and industry experts. From romance scams to investment fraud, we expose fraudsters' tactics to help you protect yourself and your money.
Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes and does not constitute financial advice. Any named entities in any of our episodes are not affiliated with Visa or Featurespace.
Hosted by technology journalist Jane Wakefield, each episode explores a different type of scam through the eyes of everyday people, fraud fighters, household names, and industry experts. From romance scams to investment fraud, we expose fraudsters' tactics to help you protect yourself and your money.
Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes and does not constitute financial advice. Any named entities in any of our episodes are not affiliated with Visa or Featurespace.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 40 days
Average audio length:
30 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
16 episodes
since Nov. 21, 2024
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
A lifetime of savings can disappear in moments.
In this episode of Scam Detectors, host Jane Wakefield explores how fraudsters target pensions and retirement savings through romance, fake investments and increasingly sophisticated impersonation.
Enola shares how an online relationship led to the lo…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
We’re back for Season 3!
In this episode of Scam Detectors, Jane dives into the unsettling world of holiday scams. Holidays should be all about relaxing, not working out whether your booking is real, or travel agent is who they say they are!
We hear from:
Jan, who nearly lost £4,000 after scamm…
In this episode of Scam Detectors, host Jane Wakefield explores the growing threat of tech support scams. The episode features a personal account from producer Sarah Treanor, insights from Steven Masada of Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit on how scammers use AI, and Kausar Kenning from Visa on ecosy…
In this episode of Scam Detectors, host Jane Wakefield explores the surprisingly persistent and evolving threat of check fraud.
While checks may feel like a relic of the past in many countries, they remain a core part of the financial system in North America, creating fertile ground for increasingl…
In this episode of Scam Detectors, we dive into the elaborate world of job scams.
Job scams are on the rise globally, with the US Better Business Burea reporting that 14million people in the US and Canada have been exposed to employment scams, with an average monetary loss of $1,000. In the UK, job…
In this episode of Scam Detectors, we explore the evolving world of online shopping scams, which are especially prominent during peak shopping periods like Black Friday.
We hear from Patricia, who shares her story with a fake logistics company, a fraudulent contract and how she overcame the persist…
In this episode, we dive into the growing threat of crypto scams, with Jane drawing on her own experience of being impersonated in AI-generated fake news articles. We hear from Karen, who was lured into investing thousands, while undercover scam hunter Jim Browning exposes a “recovery scam” in real…
To kick off Season 2, we have a very special LIVE episode of Scam Detectors, recorded at the Featurespace Customer Forum 2025.
Host Jane Wakefield was joined by Steve Goddard, Becky Holmes and Suzanne Lynch for an insightful and energetic conversation on what keeps them up at night, the difference …
The season finale of Scam Detectors plunges into the world of Deepfakes. That familiar voice at the start? It wasn't host Jane Wakefield – it was a deepfake!
In this episode, the real Jane Wakefield explores how voice clones, capable of deceiving even close family, and deepfake videos placing every…
Have you ever stopped to truly question the authenticity of a voice or video you've encountered online? We explore the growing problem of deepfakes and how they are being used to impersonate individuals and spread fraudulent schemes.
Just as we've learned to be wary of phishing emails, this episode…
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