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The Real Hustle

The Real Hustle

★ 7.6/10•2006•Reality•Crime
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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.

StatusEnded
LanguageEN
First Air DateFeb 9, 2006

Episodes

Episode 1 - Episode 1E129m

Episode 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.

Feb 9, 2006

Episode 2 - Episode 2E229m

Episode 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.

Feb 16, 2006

Episode 3 - Episode 3E329m

Episode 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.

Feb 23, 2006

Episode 4 - Episode 4E429m

Episode 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.

Mar 2, 2006

Episode 5 - Episode 5E529m

Episode 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.

Mar 9, 2006

Episode 6 - Episode 6E629m

Episode 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.

Mar 16, 2006

Episode 7 - Episode 7E729m

Episode 7

They obtain credit cards in a victim's name just from items found in rubbish bins, and confuse shopkeepers into giving them too much change.

Mar 23, 2006

Episode 8 - Episode 8E829m

Episode 8

Show eight is the last in the first series and features the Psychic Scam, which shows how a hustler can cheat you with fake psychic powers, a demonstration of rigged dice game, a sneaky bar bet, a pool hustle and a romp through the rules of the real hustle - what we have learned throughout the series.

Mar 30, 2006

Actors

Jessica-Jane Stafford

Jessica-Jane Stafford

Self - Host

Alexis Conran

Self - Host

R. Paul Wilson

R. Paul Wilson

Self - Host

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