Britain's favourite fakes

15th February 2008 30 mins Season 2008 Episode 6

"Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, interest you in a cheap watch, guv?" That's the traditional image of fakes, the way it used to be, the spiv with his coat lined with counterfeits. But things have changed. These days there is nothing that's not being faked; films, fashion, spare parts, drugs, tea bags, cigarettes, even toothpaste. You name it, someone somewhere will be knocking it off.

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Season 2008 · Episode 7

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Britain's 10 million small shareholders are being systematically targeted by an international criminal network of fake investment firms who have conned them out of millions of pounds. When Dr John Ashley got a letter from Spain offering him free advice on his savings, he thought it wouldn't do any harm to say yes. How wrong he was. Eighteen months later and £60,000 poorer, Dr Ashley rued the day he listened to Madrid-based investment firm Benjamin Fisher.

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