The Real Hustle
A team of hustlers - Alexis Conran, Paul Wilson and Jessica-Jane Clement, try out some notorious scams on ‘marks’, filmed with hidden cameras. The aim is to reveal how scams work so that the viewer can avoid being ripped off by the same con.
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Season 1
8 episodes
Premiered Feb 8, 2006
Series 2
10 episodes
Premiered Sep 7, 2006
Season 3
8 episodes
Premiered Mar 14, 2007
Season 4
12 episodes
Premiered Jul 30, 2007
Season 5
8 episodes
Premiered Feb 11, 2008
Season 6
10 episodes
Premiered Oct 8, 2008
Season 7
10 episodes
Premiered May 20, 2009
Season 8
10 episodes
Premiered Jan 13, 2010
Season 9
10 episodes
Premiered Jul 28, 2010
Season 10
10 episodes
Premiered Sep 4, 2011
Season 11
10 episodes
Premiered Jan 27, 2012
Ep 1Episode 1
The team perform the classic monte scam at the beach, bag a £600 necklace from a jewellery shop, carry out a proposition bet in a pub using three pints and three shots as well as the keylogger scam, revealing the art of the pickpocket using mustard dip and the flat rental scam.
Ep 2Episode 2
Scams include overcharging for worthless packages, a proposition bet involving a shot of whisky and a shot of water, selling forged lottery tickets, stealing a laptop from an airport, the window tap and conning aspiring popstars into handing over £500 to produce a tacky demo tape.
Ep 3Episode 3
The team reveal how fake customs officers are committing daylight robbery by stripping unwitting travellers of their supposedly contraband possessions. Other scams include a pool proposition bet, the jam auction, a fairground scam, the art of the pickpocket with "mind my bag" and the wifi scam.
Ep 4Episode 4
The team continue their swindling spree by tricking a barman into paying a reward for a supposedly valuable ring using "the honeytrap" in the ring reward rip-off. Then they con punters at a car-boot sale into buying worthless scraps of paper, perform a proposition bet in a cafe, show the postman scam in the art of the pickpocket and deceive three professional poker players.
Ep 5Episode 5
A team of professional con artists demonstrate more scams, including how to sell a hire car over and over again. They also show the process involved in duplicating bank cards, the ease with which counterfeit notes can be used and how `blue-jacking' phones brings dividends.
Ep 6Episode 6
They claim compensation for damaged goods after orchestrating an accident, use other people's phones to call premium-rate lines, and make unsuspecting drivers pay for false parking tickets.
BBC Three
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