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Eye Investigations

Season 4 · Episode 8

Stranded: Exposing the UK’s immigration scammers

0.048mMarch 31, 2025

BBC Africa Eye goes undercover to track down rogue relocation agents who squeeze thousands of pounds from aspiring migrants with the false promise of a job in the UK.

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Episode 1Our Land, Our Life
Episode 2Targeted: Lebanon's Deadliest Attack
Episode 3Child Soldiers: The Untold Story of Iran-Iraq’s Frontline Children
Episode 4Saudi and Trans: Eden's Final Message
Episode 5India's Opioid Kings
Episode 6Liked, Lured, Livestreamed
Episode 7Trouble Makers: Drugged, Framed and Detained
Episode 8Stranded: Exposing the UK’s immigration scammers
Episode 9Inside Darfur: Siege & Massacres
Episode 10Make Me Perfect: Manufacturing Beauty in China
Episode 11Turkey's Hidden War: The Forbidden Zone
Episode 12Rise of the Patriots
Episode 13Blood Parliament
Episode 14The Land That Bleeds
Episode 15Iran: Murder for Hire
Episode 16Informers: Hunting the Enemy Within
Episode 17The Killing Call
Episode 18The Battle for Bangladesh
Episode 19Inside Cape Town’s Gang Wars
Episode 20Madams: Exposing Kenya's Child Sex Trade
Episode 21The Mystery of Musa al-Sadr
Episode 22Meow Meow: Russia’s Mephedrone Teen Crisis
Episode 23Syria’s Stolen Children
Episode 24Kharkiv War Diaries
Episode 25Death in Dubai
Episode 26Rigged: Undercover in a Fake News Network
Episode 27Shadow Healers: South Africa's Psychedelic Journey
Episode 28Blood in the Earth
Episode 29A City Held Hostage: Johannesburg
Episode 30No Justice, Just Kills
Episode 31Money Rituals: Africa’s Deadliest Taboo
Episode 32When Water Burns: The Fight for Georgia
Episode 33White Asylum: America's South African Refugees
Episode 34The Schools that Break Children
Episode 35The Child Cancer Scam
Episode 36Born in Bethlehem