User Reviews

I loved the scamming and the insight into that part of the story. The main characters seemed implausible and far fetched with a script with very predictable lines. The psychology of the characters flip flopped for no apparent reason spoiling the integrity of what could have been a very very good drama

Pretty unrealistic characters, it's a good storyline, but not very well executed. There are a lot of goofs in it and the bank card he gives her with £100k in at the end is great, but he walks off and didn't give her the pin number.

The script seemed well written, but there were a few poorly written sections that made no sense, such as when June (Sally) killed one of the bad guys with a lethal injection which was so out of character, do you really kill someone for £86k?

But it was the last episode (4) where things went wrong. It was supposed to be a plot twist, but it just felt like it was a last-minute change right up to the point it was being filmed. It felt disjointed to the point it felt like I was watching a different series.

I still gave it a 6/10 as the storyline really did humanise the scamming industry, putting a face to what many go through (including me), and I know Sally Lindsay also has been at the wrong end of scammers, so using her acting skills to put this together to show how easy it is to fall foul of the scammers was actually good of her. It's just a shame the script wasn't tidied up a bit more before shooting started.

It had all the potential for being brilliant but the last episode was a disgrace. What a lot of tosh. Do the writers think we are thick and stupid? Ridiculous pantomime baddies.. was anyone scared of Mr Zimma or whoever he was? And Kirk? No one would ever take him seriously in the real world... and would our main character really seriously react in the way she did.. she blimmin killed a man (didn't seem to effect her much) kidnapped an old lady.. and hid her in the most obvious place ever, manage to organise a new wedding dress in what like a day, wandered about the wedding like an extra who hasn't been given their wardrobe yet for it 'all to work out in the end'. Sally Lindsay must have been like, man.. why on earth am I actually doing this? The story first fell flat when her character stole the money for the pram.. nah.. didn't believe she would do that. What a disappointment. Writers should be ashamed of themselves..

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning

June Clarke (Sally Lindsay) is a hard working carer, who's hoping to buy her own house, and help her daughter Hana (Taj Atwal) out. But then she falls prey to a telephone 'cold caller', who fleeces her of all her money. She runs into Des (Daniel Ryan), an old school friend, at a therapy group for victims of scams. He knows how to go about tracking down fraudsters, and together him and June discover the man behind her scamming is Kirk Wiley (Paul Higgins), a wealthy client of hers, setting her on a dangerous path.

In an age where most theft is increasingly done over the phone and online, the modern day phenomenon of the 'cold caller' is certainly ripe for dramatic license, with all of us often reminded to keep personal details safe and to be aware of suspicious sounding calls and e-mails. There are plenty of real life recollections of such events on numourous consumer watchdog programmes, and it certainly could have produced some emotive real life drama. Instead, we've got this ridiculously over the top suspense thriller.

Despite a promising opening, with Lindsay well cast in the lead role, it descends into a nonsensically far fetched affair, deviating from any sort of believable real life sequence of events, into a crazy scenario involving gangsters and some mysterious old man, like in one of those old spy thrillers. By the end, June's gone from being an ordinary, everyday person, to someone who's taken a life without any sort of trauma, and then happily flies off on a holiday, and with a real life lead character that unbelievable, how can you take to anything else?

I'm not sure what the makers of this had in mind, or the direction they were trying to take it in, but it's a wasted chance to shine a light on something that affects many people today. **

Thoroughly enjoyed this series. A bit short so felt pretty rushed in terms of the storyline but that was okay and understandable.

Good up until the very last sentences from the main actress. She supposedly did it all for her daughter. In the very last sentences that she speaks on the phone in the final episode, she clearly shows that her daughter hasn't benefitted a single bit. I don't think this was by design but rather just a rushed storyline and ending. Honestly, I just laughed.

Exactly... where are the unicorns as most of this drama is make believe.

Spoiler Alert: Main character has lost 83k and her Mother has committed suicide but you think she had last a tenner down the back of the sofa. So nonchalant and indifferent about these devastating events in ones life.

Then meets a geezer who has dedicated his life to finding this guy who commits the frauds at a support group who coincidentally was an ex boyfriend of hers at school.

Really it's just tosh.

Absolutely love this programme, I know stuff like this happens and I feel sorry for those that get scammed, can't wait for the next one

Sobering tale, said with knowledge of scams like this, and excellent acting from Sally Lindsay and the menacing Dan Skinner. Understand producers had tighter than average budgetary constraints compared to other channels, series performed really well against competition with room left for possible sequel. More like this please Channel 5.

A middle-aged single mother who's a caregiver gets caught up in a cold call scam that turns her world upside down. The premise was good, although the numbers seemed wrong from the start. It's supposedly set in current (2019) times, but the idea that by selling her house, which she owned outright, for 83,000 pounds (approximately $114,000) and that she could give half to her daughter ($41,500 pounds or $57,000) and use her own half to live comfortably with her mother by renting without having to worry about money seemed like a fairy tale. But the plot was actually worse than that. When she goes to a support group for others who have been scammed, she meets a guy from when she was young, who tells her he can help her to get her money back. He clearly still carries a torch for her, and she's willing to accept his help, but she treats him like dirt. If he'd helped her find who stole her money and then they'd gone to the police and caught the thieves, this might have worked, but that's not the plot of this grim mini-series.

And SPOILER ALERT, the idea that when she finally gets back her 83,000 pounds = $114K, or even if you go with the idea that she has 100,000 pounds = $137,000, which is the limit on the credit card, she's in her late 40s (although she looks mid-50s) with no apparent pension or nest egg, and when the series ends, when she's on her phone booking a first class ticket to the tropics, to be met by a limo, all I could think was that this ditz was going to blow through that "found money" in a year and be in a worse position than she was at the beginning. Don't waste your time on this loser series.