NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Episode 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/9/2006
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - Episode 2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/16/2006
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - Episode 3
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/23/2006
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#4 - Episode 4
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/2/2006
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#5 - Episode 5
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/9/2006
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#6 - Episode 6
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/16/2006
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#7 - Episode 7
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/23/2006
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#8 - Episode 8
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/30/2006
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#9 - Episode 1
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/7/2006
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#10 - Episode 2
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/2006
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#11 - Episode 3
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/2006
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - Episode 4
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/2006
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#13 - Episode 5
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/5/2006
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#14 - Episode 6
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/2006
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#15 - Episode 7
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/2006
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#16 - Episode 8
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/26/2006
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#17 - Episode 9
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/2/2006
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#18 - Episode 10
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/9/2006
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#19 - Episode 1
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 3/15/2007
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#20 - Episode 2
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 3/22/2007
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 only seems large enough for a 5p. Alex pretends to be a concierge and makes off with luggage outside a hotel. Alex and Paul get a dog from the dog's home and sell it for £200 by tricking the buyer into thinking that it is of a valuable pedigree breed.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#21 - Episode 3
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 3/29/2007
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 passers-by to an expensive text message service by asking to borrow their mobile phones by pretending she needs to send an important, but ordinary text; she actually subscribes them. Paul and Alex win big by stacking the deck in a game of drunken poker.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#22 - Episode 4
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 4/5/2007
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 belonging to the hustlers. Paul wins a proposition bet involving a chain and a ring. Paul and Alex try their luck at backgammon with controlled dice shots and hustling techniques. Jess walks into a high street computing store to steal expensive software off of the display Apple Macintosh computers.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#23 - Episode 5
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 4/12/2007
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 and Alex demonstrate extreme social compliance by posing as policeman investigating suspected stolen goods, only to steal the goods themselves. They also use mis-spotted and loaded dice to scam other gamblers in a casino.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#24 - Episode 6
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 4/19/2007
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. Alex wins a proposition bet with a pedantic definition of the phrase "in thirty seconds". Paul and Alex demonstrate social compliance by posing as police officers. Alex and Paul use past posting to rip-off a roulette wheel.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#25 - Episode 7
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 4/26/2007
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 with an elaborate series of coordinated scams against a restaurant. Paul and Alex use memory, observational, and mathematical techniques to win at Blackjack.
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The Best Episodes of The Real Hustle
Every episode of The Real Hustle ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of 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...
Genres:RealityCrime
Network:BBC Three
Best Episodes Summary
"Episode 1" is the best rated episode of "The Real Hustle". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/9/2006. This episode scored NaN points higher than the second highest rated, "Episode 2".