Rip Off Britain Season 8, Episode 5: Episode 5

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Episode 1

The team start with a particularly nasty case that saw one woman cheated out of £90,000.

45 min

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Episode 2

The team meets a couple whose builders caused the entire house to collapse.

45 min

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Episode 3

How many of the miraculous claims made for top-selling shampoos are really true?

45 min

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Episode 4

Star Wars actor Mark Hamill reveals how he is taking on the fraudsters making big money from conning fans.

45 min

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Episode 5

Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the safety of tumble dryers.

45 min

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Episode 6

Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate new threats to your personal details.

45 min

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Episode 7

Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate complaints about charities.

45 min

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Episode 8

Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville ask why car dealers don't always give correct information.

45 min

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Episode 9

With a look at safeguards Britain's online stores have in place to stop children buying products aimed at adults.

45 min

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Episode 10

The team investigate why so many people have had problems trying to get faster broadband in their homes.

45 min

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Episode 11

The team examine a computer threat that could see your files held to ransom and made inaccessible unless you pay up.

45 min

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Episode 12

The team meet people who have all found ways to reduce what they previously paid on household bills.

45 min

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Episode 13

The team expose the secret sales techniques used to pressure more vulnerable customers into buying products they simply can't afford.

45 min

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Episode 14

The team meet viewers whose purchases have had an unwelcome sting, including homeowners desperate to know why their homes have flooded.

45 min

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Episode 15

The team investigate if the price-match promises from some of the country's biggest retailers could come with a catch.

45 min

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Episode 16

With fake job scams on the rise, the team unpicks how the fraudsters make their ads so plausible - thanks to actors posing as employers.

45 min

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Episode 17

Why residents desperate to get the condition of their roads up to scratch will only be able to do it by forking out thousands of pounds themselves.

45 min

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Episode 18

The team uncovers how the billing mistakes of one mobile phone giant have caused customers months of misery.

45 min

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Episode 19

The team investigates cases where viewers haven't had what they paid for, including a big name music concert that went wrong from the start.

45 min

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Episode 20

The team discovers how a business supposed to help people manage their debts left them owing more than they had in the first place.

45 min