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Season 1

Season 1

Season 1

Season 1

Season 1

Season 1

  • Air date:2006-02-08
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  • Number of episodes:8

List of Episodes

Episode 1
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Air date: 2006-02-09

Runtime: 29 min

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.

Episode 2
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Air date: 2006-02-16

Runtime: 29 min

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.

Episode 3
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Air date: 2006-02-23

Runtime: 29 min

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.

Episode 4
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Air date: 2006-03-02

Runtime: 29 min

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.

Episode 5
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Air date: 2006-03-09

Runtime: 29 min

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.

Episode 6
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Air date: 2006-03-16

Runtime: 29 min

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.

Episode 7
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Air date: 2006-03-23

Runtime: 29 min

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.

Episode 8
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Air date: 2006-03-30

Runtime: 29 min

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.

Top Cast

Jessica-Jane Stafford

Jessica-Jane Stafford

Self - Host

R. Paul Wilson

R. Paul Wilson

Self - Host

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