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Secret filming is the undoing of an opportunist attempting to exaggerate his personal injury claim, and insurers deal with a rear-end shunt that has plenty of twists and turns.

Insurance cheats come under the spotlight of the investigators. Today, a woman injured in an accident sees her claim go belly up when she gets on the dance floor. A serving police officer gets involved in a brazen attempt to get a payout for bikes that don’t even exist, while a binman claiming for serious injuries fails to mention his sporting sideline. A disgruntled employee is willing to harm herself as part of a bogus claim, and a salsa dancer’s exaggerated injury claims are exposed in court.

Insurance cheats come under the spotlight of the investigators. Today, CCTV reveals what really happened after a nasty fall at a birthday bash resulted in a £15,000 claim. A holidaymaker goes missing in action when asked tricky questions about his lost luggage claim, while a footballer scores an own goal when his own social media posts expose his lies about his accident. Data from a clever bit of kit marks the end of the road for a £50,000 claim for a car crash that never happened, and a woman is caught red-handed after trying to get a £38,000 payout for some stolen bling.

Insurance cheats come under the spotlight of the investigators. Today, a jogger fakes a £6,500 payout, but his antics are caught on CCTV. A scammer is exposed online after using multiple identities to cash in following a series of robberies, while an adrenaline junkie wanting a £50,000 payout for his injuries has his claim wiped out when he shares his adventures on social media. A driver is exposed for implicating his nearest and dearest in a false claim, and a dog owner plays fast and loose with her pet policy to get reimbursed for a £4,000 vet bill.

Insurance cheats come under the spotlight of the investigators. Today, a fast-food brawl leaves one woman convinced she has a fighting chance of getting her hands on £100,000. A plumber tries to claim for his stolen tools twice, while a crash-for-cash gang’s antics are exposed by satellite technology. A butcher injured at work chops and changes his story so much that he ends up with nothing other than a huge bill to pay, and a serial claims cheat fakes damage to the same sofa multiple times until the police finally catch up with him.

Insurance cheats come under the spotlight of investigators. Today, when he finds himself facing a prison sentence, a builder says he was given dodgy advice before faking a claim. The tables are turned on a burglary victim who turns rogue to get his hands on a bigger payout. A not-so-jolly sailor ends up in hot water after his boat goes up in flames. A skier is on thin ice when he fails to disclose a hefty payout that had already been paid into his account, and a serial claims cheat is caught on camera when he’s recorded on CCTV.

Insurers turn to undercover filming to get to the bottom of a suspicious personal injury claim, a scam to cash in on a mobile phone lost in a toilet goes down the pan and social media is the undoing of an opportunist as he boxes himself into a corner. An audacious claim for compensation ends up costing one man a lot more than he bargained for when CCTV shows what really happened, and in the USA a missing person investigation turns out to be an elaborate fake death scam to cash in on a life insurance policy.

CCTV exposes a chip shop worker's self-inflicted personal injury, a jewellery scam is exposed, and a motorist claiming against a bus company ends up regretting his road rage.

A prolific fraudster comes a cropper after targeting Royal Mail delivery vans, and a careless claimant is caught out when investigators discover his story is full of holes.

A dog owner displays very bad behaviour when it comes to their pet pooch's insurance policy and a fraudster tries to cash in on his holiday insurance with forged document.

A careless cyclist is left reeling after an incident with a bus. Elsewhere, a claimant tries to con an insurer with a fraudulent claim for lost jewellery.

Anonymous tip-offs reveal an outrageous plan to cash in after a flood ruins a house and, when a missing watch turns up, it is not the good news that the claimant expected.

An opportunist tries his hand at forgery to sign off his own claim, and a case of road rage escalates into a fraudulent claim.

A fraudster is left bankrupt and behind bars when his attempt at a crash-for-cash scam backfires. Questions are raised after a stolen watch is found, but not where it should be.

A claimant is caught out when he sends an email from the phone he's claiming has been lost, a dubious claim for personal injury against a bus company is dealt a blow when CCTV reveals one of the claimants was never even at the scene, and a bogus burglary claim goes up in smoke. Insurers crack a woman's attempt to build up a nest egg by repeatedly claiming she has lost her jewellery, an opportunist's scam is easily exposed when it transpires he'd already told his insurers the truth, and in the USA, a husband is handed a life sentence after committing the ultimate evil act in order to get his hands on his wife's life insurance premium.

One man fakes his own personal injury claim using a nail gun, a would-be whiplash fraudster is caught out on bus CCTV, and a newly-formed police unit, IFED, raid a suspected fraudulent accident management company.

Secret filming and a musical performance are instrumental in the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department sending a postman to prison after making a grossly exaggerated personal injury claim, while the stage beckons for one chancer who is caught on CCTV pulling off the performance of a lifetime with a theatrical fall into a pothole. A fake death certificate is the final nail in the coffin for a shoddy attempt at a travel insurance scam, a pet insurance company refuses to roll over when there is a dubious claim for a pair of stolen puppies, and CCTV is the undoing of a rail passenger who slips up with a wet-floor story.

A footballer who claimed he could not play is caught getting man of the match, a debt-ridden dentist fakes his own death, and a specialist police fraud unit executes a multi-location raid on a suspected motor fraud gang.

A serial scammer is caught out when he attempts to make identical travel insurance claims by altering the figures on a police report, while a caravan owner concocts an elaborate story to claim for a theft that never even happened. A fraudster who cashed in by selling worthless insurance policies is brought to justice, and a couple's personal injury claim fails to get into first gear when bus CCTV reveals that they deliberately caused the collision themselves. In the USA, a fraudster's barbaric scheme to profit from a fraudulent insurance claim results in a life-changing injury for his victim.

Officers from the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department hit the jackpot when they raid the home of a man suspected of a series of meticulously planned frauds. Next stop is the land of nod as CCTV footage puts one bus passenger's personal injury claim to bed, a woman is caught red handed when a lost ring miraculously reappears on her finger, and a dog owner's request to alter veterinary records comes back to bite her.

A shopper gets more than he bargained for when he tries an unsavoury scam in the supermarket. The Metropolitan Police bring down a crash-for-cash gang. Justice is delivered when a second-class attempt to defraud the Royal Mail ends in a prosecution. Station CCTV footage leads to a clumsy commuter's personal injury claim hitting the buffers, and a fraudster's tall tales are exposed as lies.

A moped rider's poor attempt to defraud a council for compensation lands him in front of a High Court judge, and ultimately behind bars. Dash-cam footage proves to be the perfect eyewitness as the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department bust a textbook case of crash for cash. A wannabe film producer's insurance claim for stolen cameras has so many plot holes, it is anything but a whodunnit. And a claimant hoping to cash in on their travel insurance is left disappointed.

Claimed and Shamed is back for its seventh series, exposing even more insurance fraudsters lying on the phone or caught out on camera. The series highlights the extraordinary and often ridiculous lengths some people go to in order to try and receive a bumper payout. The orchestrator of a crash-for-cash operation targeting delivery vehicles finds himself behind bars when the Metropolitan Police catch up with him. Time is called on a claim for a lost watch when metadata from photos to support the claim actually prove the claimant's dishonesty. Justice is on the menu for one woman after her outrageous attempt at a trip-and-slip claim in a canteen is caught on CCTV, while a gang claiming for accidents that never even happened find themselves in court when insurers crack their scam. And a claimant finds herself out of pocket when her attempt to defraud her insurer backfires, and she has to repay her undeserved payouts.

The shocking story of a husband and wife who conned an insurer out of £70,000 by falsely claiming a young relative had been blinded in an accident. A convicted criminal is handed an even longer stretch behind bars after faking a fall from his bunk bed to make a personal injury claim. A mobile phone insurance claim is flushed away when the claimant's soggy story of losing it down a drain holds no water. CCTV pours cold water on an insurance claim after a building is burned to the ground, and the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department carry out an early morning raid to arrest a suspected fraudster.

A fraudster's claim hits a bump in the road when hi-tech anti-fraud kit in the car reveals what really happened. Time is called on a personal injury claim when CCTV shows a broken chair in a pub was thanks to a spot of DIY by the claimant. A slip-and-trip scam using a hotdog and some terrible acting fails to bring home the bacon, and a claimant goes on the offensive when their motor insurance scam is stopped in its tracks.

Undercover filming exposes a fraudster who's been bending the truth about his bad back. It's not all roses for an opportunist who claims they quite literally fell head over heels on Valentine's night. The chips are down in Las Vegas for a pair of criminals caught red-handed. And the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department catch out a fraudster who was just too organized for his own good when he staged a bogus burglary.

The next stop is jail for the fraudster behind a massive bus fraud involving seven collisions and hundreds of personal injury claims. A mobile phone insurance company is determined to flush out the truth after receiving a suspicious claim for a mobile phone dropped down a drain. Time is called on a punter's claim against a pub, thanks to CCTV footage, when a landlord's false fire claim combusts at court as he tries to insure the building after it has burned down. Plus, the jaw-dropping footage of an attempt at house insurance fraud that went tragically wrong in the USA.

Prison is the final destination for a prolific travel insurance fraudster who racked up claims totalling over £100,000. CCTV well and truly puts the brakes on a claim for multiple injuries sustained in an incident on a bus. And the men behind an attempted fraud clearly don't know their left from their right, as they submit a claim that simply could never have happened as they describe.