Gogglebox stars rage as 'scum' scammers prey on vulnerable 80 year old woman in care home
Gogglebox viewers saw some of its stars erupt in rage as they watched a clip of a vulnerable old woman narrowly escape being scammed.
On last night's show, Channel 4's current batch of couch critics were shown a segment from Scam Interceptors. Hosted by Rav Wilding, he works alongside "ethical hackers" to break into scammers' illegal call centres to try and stop their selfish and damaging actions in real time.
The BBC show saw Wilding and his team observe a conman contact a 80-year-old woman who lives in a care home. He pretended to be from Amazon, and tricked her into downloading software which allowed him to view her computer.
To gain her trust, he told her that someone was trying to buy an iPhone through her account. She naively followed instructions to log into her bank account, revealing the details to the crook in the process.
He also warned her not to tell a nurse - who was cutting up her lunch - what their call was about. Thankfully, Rav and his team leapt into action, remotely crashing the scammer's computer and then calling the OAP to tell her of her narrow escape.
The Goggleboxxers were gnashing their teeth in rage as the scenes played out. Ronnie, who watches TV with his wife Annie in South-East London, yelled, "You scumbag!"
Sisters Amira and Amani Rota also watched on in horror, with Amira admitting she'd like to switch careers to become a scam-buster, approaching the crooks with the same menacing air as Liam Neeson in Taken.
She said: "I would say to them 'I know your home address... I will find you,' I would Liam Neeson that s***." She added, "You're going to hell."
Hull-based Lee Riley, who watches TV from a static holiday home in Hull with his best friend Jenny Newby snarled: "You f*****."
There's not always such tension on Gogglebox, and in December Jenny, 66, had viewers giggling when she revealed what she'd rather do instead of the gruelling I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! eating challenges.
As Jenny and Lee sat down to watch the much-talked-about ITV series, Jenny confessed: "I don't know if I'd sooner walk the plank or eat c**k."
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