Takings a shops money by pretending to send a Christmas card. Two proposition bets - moving an olive without touching it and balancing coins on a glass. Free giftwrapping service - but they decide to empty the presents. The big toy -…
A team of hustlers try out notorious scams on members of the public, including stealing thousands of pounds in an elaborate con trick in a pub, and a dangerous pickpocketing scam. This extended episode contains new and repeated scams.
The top 10 scams from the first five series of The Real Hustle, as voted for by visitors to the BBC's Real Hustle website. Confidence trickster Alex Conran, scam artist Paul Wilson and sexy swindler Jessica Clement have exposed hundreds…
Hosted by Kate Thornton, this family special features incredible magic and jaw-dropping reactions as a team of masters of deception baffle the public with amazing stunts. Shot entirely on location, Jessica Clement, Paul Wilson and Alex…
This special episode takes a look at versions of 'The Real Hustle' produced in The United States, Russia, Israel, Belgium, Germany and Australia.
Alex Conran, Jessica Clement and Paul Wilson (of The Real Hustle) demonstrate a selection of startling and astonishing bar bets and challenges in The World's Greatest Bar Bets. Looking to get out of your round down the local? Scamming a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
First in the new series sees the team conning a delivery man into giving them his goods, making a couple in a cafe buy an supposedly expensive plate after overhearing a phone conversation and getting someone to leave a deposit on a car…
This episode's proposition bet involves the circumference of a beer glass being longer than its height. Stealing a victim's bag and then obtaining her PIN via a fake customer service line. Stealing people's unattended bags with a hollow…
The gang steal someone's car by pretending to be a valet parking service, Alex pretends to have an injured leg so as to steal watches, another proposition bet where you lift a shot glass using two coins and a waitress skimming credit cards.
Jess uses a distraction technique while Alex removes the contents of there car's boot, getting free drinks by inviting marks to copy you, how a fake phone shop on a busy high street can con you out of your money, bogus security guards…
How to steal a car with a clever bit of role playing and how a mock auction can con members of the public into buying cheap goods.
The gang show us how to con members of the public into giving away credit card details via a fake charity scratch card just by saying there was a bit of mix up.
The gang steel laptops by offering a free memory upgrade, they picking pockets in a cafe, hack someone's wireless network and sell cheap knives with an infomercial for much more than there worth.
The gang set up an fashion store, but all the clothes in it are second hand. Alex works his charms as a fake waiter and Paul dupes another punter into buying him a free drink. Also one woman gets her kitchen taken of any valuables by…
The gang clamp someone's car and take a bribe to take it off, they show us how simple it is to sell non-organic produce as organic with a price rise, and Paul shows us how easy it is to con the public out of their cash in an origami scam…
Alex and Paul set up a market stall that sells fake TV show props and autographs, while Jess sells bus tour vouchers to unsuspecting tourists for a bus that doesn't exist. Plus, three ways you could be short-changed after buying something.
Alex and Paul sell games consoles at cheap prices to get some lads to give them their cash. Also Jess and Alex use a hotel to steal someone's credit card details just by overhearing their name and room number.
Alex drops a wallet full of Euros in the Drop Swindle. Jess fills a bag with leaflets in the tourist information centre and sells them to marks as discount packs. Paul gets free drinks by putting a 10p through a hole in a £10 note which…
Jess cons people into giving her money in a pub by posing as a barmaid. Paul gets a neighbouring table to pay for his bill in a restaurant. Alex wins a proposition bet involving a £20 note and a beer bottle. Jess signs up unsuspecting…
Paul accidentally overpays for a purchase in an antique shop with his last cheque. He asks for the change in cash, but of course, the cheque is going to bounce. Alex reconfigures mobiles phones causing them to ring premium phone lines…
The hustlers demonstrate pickpocketing techniques while crossing the road. Paul sells an envelope of worthless newspaper to some students, fooling them that it is full of cash. Jess wins a proposition bet involving hands and elbows. Paul…
Alex and Jess fake an argument in a jeweller's shop allowing Paul to use sleight of hand to steal an expensive watch. Alex cons restaurants by pretending his tie was stained with wine, then increases the amount written on the cheques.…
Paul and Alex pose as gas installers and rip off unsuspecting householders. Jess hacks into a cash machine to double her money. Paul wins a proposition bet involving a saucer of liquid and some matches. All three hustlers get a free lunch…
Paul and Alex sell dodgy camcorders from a white van to unsuspecting members of the public. The gang con a pub into letting them take away a fruit machine in plain sight. Jess wins a proposition bet involving three stacks of 10p coins.…
Alex and Jess rob a hotel room by posing as hotel employees; Jess and Paul pretend to be from a film crew, ask a mark if they can rent his car as a prop, and drive off right in front of him; Jess wins a proposition bet using three full…
Alex and Jess empty a house by faking a security survey and a prize draw; in Ibiza, the team sell fake jewels; Paul wins a proposition bet involving money and your third finger; Alex swaps the padlock from a fitness club attender and…
The hustlers sell a fake device which supposedly adds credit to an Oyster Card; cheat in 3 card brag by marking cards and using reflections; win a proposition bet trying to knock a 10p piece off your forehead; demonstrate pickpocketing…
The hustlers pass counterfeit cash by previously handing shops a pen that supposedly detects counterfeit notes; demonstrate scams that a bartender can pull; get people to hand over their bank details in applying for a gym that will never…
The gang sell a car but keep a spare set of keys to steal it back (The Boomerang); install a fake cash machine to duplicate the cards and PINs of unsuspecting passers-by (The Cash Machine Con); win a proposition bet involving listing…
The gang pull off an escrow scan by pretending to be a trustworthy pub landlord; manage to persuade a couple to give them £200 for some worthless vouchers in the pretense of a prize draw; sell overpriced goods (for example, 100 nails…
The hustlers make up an event, hire a band, then steal their equipment; sell fake tickets for a club night in Ibiza; demonstrate a fairground pendulum game that is physically impossible to win; and deliver empty parcels, cash on delivery,…
The gang rely on the goodwill of hotel owners towards (fake) VIP guests to make them pay for worthless deliveries; play Three-card Monte to hustle some holidaymakers; park a 'broken down' refrigerated delivery van in a residential street…
The hustlers fool a white van man into thinking he has hit a pedestrian and get him to pay for her "damaged" laptop (The Flop); rip-off some holidaymakers with what looks like a very cheap exchange rate but sell them blank paper instead…
Paul takes full advantage of a hotel's services (and room contents) using nothing more than an air of authority (Fake Doctor); a lure of big money for little work puts an unquestioning member of the public in a difficult position…
The hustlers dress up as security guards, turn up at a shop which is expecting its weekly cash takings to be collected, and walk off with the loot; pose as the legitimate owners of sunloungers and collect rental fees from holidaymakers on…
The gang hire some expensive jewelry for a fake photo shoot, which comes accompanied by security guards, and walk out with it via a hidden door behind a changing curtain; and con some holidaymakers into believing they need to pay a fine…
A team of hustlers try out notorious scams on members of the public in Las Vegas.
The gang decide it's time to hit Las Vegas in this latest series. The gang take $80,000 worth of jewellery with the help of disguise, Jess shows you how to double your money and they show you how Casino staff can steal your chips while…
Jess dresses up to steal hotel guest\'s belongings while Paul and Alex will do the same with the guest\'s cars. They also decide to steal a couple of grand from a casino.
The team decide they want the pot in the a Blackjack game, Jess uses her feminine charms to win some money at pool and they also show you how conmen will go to extremes to pickpocket you.
Alex and Jess hit the jackpot when they talk a few slot players out of their winnings, and the hustlers leave an electrical store with a $2000 home cinema system that has only cost them $270.
The gang decicde to hustle some tourists to steal their luagage, Jess needs some change so decicdes to make of with a slot player's coin bucket and Alex and Paul fancie using someone else's money to go out for a drink.
Alex, Jess and Paul con a father and his daughter into buying counterfeit casino chips, use ingenious techniques to pick the pockets of locals and con an unsuspecting girl into becoming an accomplice in a jewellery store robbery.
Paul, with the help of Alex, cons a father and daughter into buying a device that can predict the numbers drawn on a live lottery, Alex hustles a pool player out of his cash and Jess uses her charms to distract a barman, allowing Paul to…
In the final episode of the series Alex pretends to be blind to cheat a casino and Paul cons an unsuspecting couple into buying dodgy casino chips.
A team of hustlers try out some notorious scams on members of the public.
An innocent bystander is conned into paying £2000 to stop the publication of paparazzi photos (The Sweetheart Scam). The team shows how easy it is to steal thousands of pounds of high value goods from right under the nose of a top hotel…
The boys demonstrate an ingenious method to sneak a marked pack of cards into a big money poker game (Lady Luck). The Pigeon Drop rips off some marks who think they've found a bag full of cash. Celebrity Con Games features Joanna Page in…
Described as the "most common scam in the world", the 419 scam is demonstrated; Jess persuades someone to hand over his car keys as security while he does her a favour by taking what he thinks is £7000 of her money to a money exchange…
Alex poses as a talented but shy mathematician to convince people to invest in a Blackjack system; Jess steals some items from a shop by hiding them in a pregnancy dress (Bun in the Oven); and Alex beats a horse ridden by Tara…
Paul reprises his role as a fake doctor to convince marks to bet at a fake betting shop run by the team (The Wire); Alex shoplifts by using a mark's open bag as a diversion (The False Alarm); and Dick and Dom challenge Jess to a game of…
The team sets up their own art gallery to sell fake art by a famous artist (Picture Perfect); Alex and Paul demonstrate ways people can steal handbags (The Handbag Hustles); and Chico is challenged to a string game with balloons with the…
The hustlers trick two marks with an elaborate version of the Black Money Scam; Paul sets up a dodgy bureau de change (Currency Exchange Cons); and Steve Backley is challenged to a distance throwing challenge (Celebrity Con Games).
Paul becomes Maurice the Psychic to scam unsuspecting believers into parting with their savings (The Psychic); Jess spends an evening as a barmaid to demonstrate some Cocktail Cons; and Scott Mills is challenged in a blindfold guessing…
The team pose as antiques experts and manage to sell a couple their own statuette back to them (Double Take); Alex and Paul successfully perform a variant of phishing, except in the real-life environment of a shopping-centre instead of…
A pair of marks are tricked into thinking they are buying the discs from the 2007 UK child benefit data scandal in the hope of gaining an award (The Go-between); a carefully constructed paper form ensures that companies still pay for a…
A team of hustlers expose the scams that cheat tourists out of their holiday money.
Jess convinces a mark to take a teddy to her nephew in Liverpool, but it contains a surprise (The Teddy Bear Scam); Andi Peters is challenged by Alex to tear apart a phonebook faster than he can (Celebrity Con Games); Paul convinces a…
Alex and Jess helpfully direct some holidaymakers to a local car mechanic (Paul), who relieves them of their keys (The Oil Slick Scam); Mark Foster is challenged by Paul to lift five gold bricks with one hand (Celebrity Con Games); Alex…
Alex demonstrates social compliance by posing as a police officer to take some tourists' passports (The Passport Cool-Out); Christian O'Connell is challenged by Alex to lift a table without touching it (Celebrity Con Games); the hustlers…
The team pay a cheque (which will bounce) to hire a boat, then ask for some of the money back in cash (The Boat Hire Scam); Angellica Bell is challenged by Jess to pick up a piece of paper placed on her feet while standing against a wall…
Alex and Jess sell some carpets from a market, but out of sight wrap up a cheap mat instead (The Wrap Up); Alex challenges someone in a bar to place coins on a napkin without overlapping the edge (Proposition Bets); Paul takes money from…
Paul offers to take photos of tourists using their own camera, but then the camera gets swiped by Jess and Alex (The Helpful Stranger); Iwan Thomas is given a challenge by Paul involving drinks bottles (Celebrity Con Games); Alex poses as…
Alex uses sleight of hand to swap keys for a left luggage locker to later steal its contents (The Bus Station Steal); Michael Underwood is challenged by Jess to knock over a golf tee on a pool table (Celebrity Con Games); Jess uses a…
The team manufacture fake international phone cards that use premium rate phone lines (The Phone Home Hustle); Lisa Maffia is challenged to fold a large sheet of paper in half more than eight times (Celebrity Con Games); Paul poses as a…
Paul demonstrates how easy it is to switch a genuine bank note with a fake one (The Counterfeit Con); Alex rotates a glass twice in his hand without relaxing his grip (Proposition Bets); Jess steals the car from some people who help her…
Paul poses as a hotel bellboy to relieve some guests of their bags (The Hotel Check Out); Joel Beckett is challenged to knock a coin balanced on a pool ball outside a circle (Celebrity Con Games); Paul and Jess run a fairground game that…
A team of hustlers go undercover using a series of disguises to expose cons and scams.
The hustlers go shopping for expensive sports cars and drive away with their biggest pay day yet. Alex, Paul and Jess teach Danny Dyer the ropes as he becomes the first celebrity hustler, and Paul and Jess discover a miracle smoking cure…
The gang organize a charity raffle to get the guests money and then win the prizes themselves. Paul and Alex scam some people by making them think they are speeding and Emilia Fox is taking part this week to scam the public.
Jess becomes a pregnant woman to get peoples attention when she's clumsy while Paul swoops in and steals their bag. Alex then returns the bag but their mobile phones are missing which becomes something much bigger and this week model…
A sofa becomes a antique dealer's worst nightmare when one is delivered with a certain con-woman hidden inside and a missing dog means becomes lost cash for one woman. Plus this week Danielle Lloyd takes part in Celebrity Hustle.
Some pirate DVD's lead to a hefty fine for some people and the gang set up a recruitment office for some members of the public to try and become a mystery shopper. Plus in this episode Iain Lee is taking part in the hustles.
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A text message sent by Jess allows Paul and Alex to be handed the keys to a very expensive car. Plus two bottles of champagne make one customer at a bar a very expensive bill and model Lucy Pinder takes part in this weeks Celebrity Hustle
Jess scams a group of people saying that she could get them into a very exclusive club but it turns out that they won't be getting in. While Alex and Paul use a spray that blacks out a number plate when a flash hits it and Emma Willis…
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In the final episode of this series Jess and Alex head to a restaurant for a meal but leave with several customers card details. While Alex gets paid for window cleaning without actually cleaning any and Rick Edwards takes part this time…
A team of hustlers lift the lid on the most devious scams to target the British public.
Matt Willis joins the regular gang of Alex, Jess and Paul to rob a jewellery store with a security disguise and and a couple of cameras which allows for them to get the alarm code and the keys for the front door. Jess infects a business…
Brendan Cole joins Alex, Jess and Paul in this episode and he has to show that Alex has been cheating in a card game to convince the marks to join in with a bet on a boxing match later in the day which Paul says he can rig in the marks…
Zöe Salmon joins the group this week as she and Alex decide to change the Vehicle Identification Number of a car that is going to be sold and they decide to take the money someone else paid for it and the car later. While Jess becomes a…
Lisa Snowdon joins the team this week to get some parks buy a cheap painting which they think is worth a lot more so they enter it into an auction hoping to get around £2000 but Paul gets them to bid to drive up the price. While Alex and…
Anthony Costa joins the team this week and sells cheap vodka at wholesale prices only for the marks to be stop by Alex and Paul who tell them that store maybe selling counterfeit goods and to use them to pay for another order from Anthony…
Kelli Young joins the group this week and becomes a cleaner along with Jess to clean up a marks house who believes it will be featured in a magazine while Alex and Paul convince the mark to replace a picture on the wall with one that is…
Ben Hull joins the team this week and is tasked with getting a business card from a car dealership and then passes to Paul in front of the marks so he can pretend to be him and tell the marks about cars that are about to be scrapped and…
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Polly Parsons and Jazz Lintott join Jess Clement, Alexis Conran and Paul Wilson in their mission to expose cons and crimes that catch the public out on a regular basis. Former Emmerdale actress Roxanne Pallet goes undercover to help the…
Pop Idol's Gareth Gates plays the role of a stock market trader in a bogus business scam.
Former Eastenders wheeler dealer Joe Swash goes undercover, posing as a member of a film crew in a scam to relieve a TV rentals shop of a shipment of flatscreen TVs.
Dance act Diversity's front man Ashley Banjo goes undercover in an art scam.
Crimewatch presenter Rav Wilding is a guest hustler in a scam involving gold chains.
Hollyoaks actress Jennifer Metcalfe goes undercover in a lottery syndicate scam.
Hollyoaks actress Sarah Jayne Dunn goes undercover with Alex in a scam involving luxury watches, and Paul poses as a security guard for a local shopping precinct.
Colin Murray poses as poker magazine journalist, helping the hustlers pull off a scam.
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Actress Adele Silva helps the hustlers in a scam which involves the Forth Railway Bridge
More devious scams targeting the British public, this time using celebrities.
Ex-Boyzone member Shane Lynch goes undercover as a tramp to help pull off a devious heist.
The Only Way Is Essex star Sam Faiers goes undercover as an ex-wife to help the Hustlers con a mark into buying part of the divorce settlement - 'husband' Alex's flash sports car.
Radio 1 DJ Nihal helps con two unsuspecting marks into buying a bronze sculpture.
TV presenter Laura Hamilton helps the Hustlers scam a mark who's accused of stealing cash.
Shameless and EastEnders star Jody Latham helps the Hustlers pull off a gambling scam.
Hollyoaks star Gemma Atkinson helps pull off a real-life game of Grand Theft Auto.
Ex-Hollyoaks star Marcus Patrick joins the team in a con involving some buried treasure.
Ex-Coronation Street star Lucien Laviscount joins the team for an antiques-based con.
Former Blue Peter Presenter Konnie Huq joins the Hustlers in a scam involving time-share deals on a Scottish castle.
Even the very best con artists make mistakes sometimes and this episode exposes what happens when scams go wrong. Guest hustlers, boxer Joe Calzaghe, and EastEnders star, Sid Owen, get involved in a crazy con set in the world of vintage…
