About this season
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.
Episodes (10)
1. Episode 1
Aired 7 September 2006 • 29 min
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 before making off with the car and the cash.
2. Episode 2
Aired 14 September 2006 • 29 min
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 dummy bag.
3. Episode 3
Aired 21 September 2006 • 29 min
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.
4. Episode 4
Aired 28 September 2006 • 29 min
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 picking pockets instead of searching them, and a restaurant scam that guarantees a meal for the price of a cup of tea.
5. Episode 5
Aired 5 October 2006 • 29 min
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.
6. Episode 6
Aired 12 October 2006 • 29 min
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.
7. Episode 7
Aired 19 October 2006 • 29 min
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.
8. Episode 8
Aired 26 October 2006 • 29 min
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 letting in some fake workmen.
9. Episode 9
Aired 2 November 2006 • 29 min
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 that leaves you with half a £10 note.
10. Episode 10
Aired 9 November 2006 • 29 min
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.