Bonus Episode: 'The iSpoof Scam: Britain’s Biggest Fraud'

UK True Crime Podcast

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This is a special bonus episode with Grace from the excellent REDRUM podcast.

The iSpoof scam was a massive online fraud where criminals used fake caller IDs to pose as banks and steal money and over 200,000 victims were targeted across the UK. Police called it one of the biggest cyber scams in British history and in this episode and today, Grace and I look behind the scam.

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1:02.5	Hello and welcome to this special bonus episode of the UK True Crime podcast.
1:07.6	Today with one of my favourite podcasters, it's Grace from the Red Run podcast. Hi, Grace.
1:12.9	How are you doing today? Hi, Adam. I'm good. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be
1:17.4	back. I cannot wait to hear the case that you've got for us today. Great stuff. Well, today's story.
1:23.1	It's not just another headline. It's the biggest fraud investigation that the Metropolitan
1:28.0	Police has ever taken on. It's an inquiry stretching across 10 countries, hundreds of
1:33.5	officers, and an almost unimaginable 200,000-plus victims whose lives are thrown into chaos.
1:41.6	But this isn't just about numbers, it's about how one sprawling, malicious network was
1:46.4	finally brought down, so stay with us as we unravel how the police dismantled a global
1:52.3	web of deception and this extraordinary operation that made history.
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