This is the moment a UK phone shop worker offered to take £3,000 in cash to pay a smuggler for a small boat crossing. Criminal gangs are using high street shops to transfer money out of Britain to pay for illegal journeys. Footage filmed at Afg Mobile Repair in Woolwich, south London, shows a man behind the counter speaking to a researcher posing as a relative of a migrant in France. The shop worker tells the researcher he can take the money immediately and will return it if the crossing is not successful. 'If your people do not cross, if he tells me to return your money back to you, I'll do it,' he says. 'You can't count on boats, you never know, God forbid the boat sinks, and all of them [drown].'Earlier, another undercover researcher - posing as a migrant trying to cross the Channel - had visited a migrant camp in Dunkirk.Within minutes of arriving, two men approached offering to connect them with a people smuggler. One of the men in the Woolwich phone shop describing how the arrangement worked Another phone shop worker being confronted by a BBC reporter. He denied the shop moves money for smugglers The footage was filmed at Afg Mobile Repair, pictured One of the touts gave the researcher the name of a people smuggler called Ahmad, who said the crossing would cost £2,700 for two people.He said the researcher could pay through three UK businesses, including the Woolwich phone shop. The BBC did not hand over any cash to the worker at Afg Mobile Repair who - when approached later - denied moving money for smugglers. 'We don't move money… we have only phone shop,' he said.The two other businesses named by the smuggler were a car wash in Cambridgeshire and a wholesaler in Newcastle. Like the phone shop, both are listed on Companies House, the UK's register of businesses. The smuggler provided their UK bank details and said they could both take electronic transfers for migrant crossings.A second smuggler, Zia, told the researcher that money transfer shops in London could take payment for the journey. 'In London, they don't give you a receipt. They call me to say [they've] got the money. When you cross, they transfer to me,' he said. Last year, the Mail reported on the boom in money transfer business and concerns they are being used to move criminal cash. An alleged people smuggler who offered to help arrange a Channel crossing