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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

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Real Hustle Season 5 Episode 4 - Las Vegas, Episode 4
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    #1 - Las Vegas, Episode 4

    S5:E4

    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.

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  2. The Real Hustle Season 5 Episode 5 - Las Vegas, Episode 5
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    #2 - Las Vegas, Episode 5

    S5:E5

    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.

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  3. The Real Hustle Season 5 Episode 6 - Las Vegas, Episode 6
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    #3 - Las Vegas, Episode 6

    S5:E6

    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.

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  4. The Real Hustle Season 5 Episode 7 - Las Vegas, Episode 7
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    #4 - Las Vegas, Episode 7

    S5:E7

    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 empty the contents of the bar's slot machine.

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  5. The Real Hustle Season 5 Episode 8 - Las Vegas, Episode 8
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    #5 - Las Vegas, Episode 8

    S5:E8

    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.

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  6. The Real Hustle Season 6 Episode 1 - High Stakes, Episode 1
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    #6 - High Stakes, Episode 1

    S6:E1

    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 Inside Job). Matt Dawson is challenged to a round of golf in Celebrity Con Games.

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  7. The Real Hustle Season 6 Episode 2 - High Stakes, Episode 2
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    #7 - High Stakes, Episode 2

    S6:E2

    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 a cracker eating competition.

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  8. The Real Hustle Season 6 Episode 3 - High Stakes, Episode 3
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    #8 - High Stakes, Episode 3

    S6:E3

    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 (The Unfair Exchange); and JK and Joel are challenged to get four eggs into four glasses in one move (Celebrity Con Games).

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  9. The Real Hustle Season 6 Episode 4 - High Stakes, Episode 4
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    #9 - High Stakes, Episode 4

    S6:E4

    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 Palmer-Tomkinson in a slalom race on foot (Celebrity Con Games).

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  10. The Real Hustle Season 6 Episode 5 - High Stakes, Episode 5
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    #10 - High Stakes, Episode 5

    S6:E5

    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 strength (Celebrity Con Games).

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  11. The Real Hustle Season 6 Episode 6 - High Stakes, Episode 6
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    #11 - High Stakes, Episode 6

    S6:E6

    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 promise that Jess will have to take her clothes off if he succeeds (Celebrity Con Games).

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  12. The Real Hustle Season 6 Episode 7 - High Stakes, Episode 7
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    #12 - High Stakes, Episode 7

    S6:E7

    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).

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  13. The Real Hustle Season 6 Episode 8 - High Stakes, Episode 8
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    #13 - High Stakes, Episode 8

    S6:E8

    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 game (Celebrity Con Games).

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  14. The Real Hustle Season 6 Episode 9 - High Stakes, Episode 9
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    #14 - High Stakes, Episode 9

    S6:E9

    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 online (Stake-out Scam); and Aldo Zilli is challenged to break an egg with a frying pan (Celebrity Con Games).

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  15. The Real Hustle Season 6 Episode 10 - High Stakes, Episode 10
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    #15 - High Stakes, Episode 10

    S6:E10

    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 cancelled service (The Cancellation Con); and basketball player Steve Bucknall is challenged to a free throw competition with Alex (Celebrity Con Games).

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  16. The Real Hustle Season 7 Episode 1 - On Holiday, Episode 1
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    #16 - On Holiday, Episode 1

    S7:E1

    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 couple he is their taxi driver, but walks off with their luggage while they wait (The Airport Pick Up); and Jess challenges two guys in a bar to get water out of a bottle faster than she can (Proposition Bets).

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  17. The Real Hustle Season 7 Episode 2 - On Holiday, Episode 2
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    #17 - On Holiday, Episode 2

    S7:E2

    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 and Paul pose as security alarm technicians so they can later burgle a house (The Silent Alarm Sting); Alex demonstrates how to open a bottle with a piece of paper (Proposition Bets); and the team use a fake exchange rate website as a convincer to make a couple part with their money (The Currency Swindle).

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  18. The Real Hustle Season 7 Episode 3 - On Holiday, Episode 3
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    #18 - On Holiday, Episode 3

    S7:E3

    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 install fake car parking signs to get people to pay by text message (The Seaside Parking Swindle); Jess challenges some people in a bar to make a knot in a tie without letting go of the ends (Proposition Bets); and Alex clones swipe-card keys in a hotel to later walk off with guests' possessions (The Swipe).

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  19. The Real Hustle Season 7 Episode 4 - On Holiday, Episode 4
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    #19 - On Holiday, Episode 4

    S7:E4

    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 (Celebrity Con Games); Alex acts drunk in a bar in order to pick pockets (The Pushout); Paul challenges some people in a bar to stand a matchbox upright using one finger (Proposition Bets); and Alex demonstrates how wearing a high visibility jacket allows him to steal a hire car under the noses of the people who just hired it (Gone in 600 Seconds).

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  20. The Real Hustle Season 7 Episode 5 - On Holiday, Episode 5
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    #20 - On Holiday, Episode 5

    S7:E5

    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 tourists by pretending to provide taxis at a discount rate (The Black Cab Con); Toby Anstis is given a challenge by Paul involving frying pans (Celebrity Con Games); and the team advertise a fake nightclub and take the entrance fee from the people queuing up (The Club Night Con).

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  21. The Real Hustle Season 7 Episode 6 - On Holiday, Episode 6
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    #21 - On Holiday, Episode 6

    S7:E6

    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 a hotel manager to get guests' key cards from them (The Hotel Room Rip-Off); Jess challenges someone in a bar to float a cork in the centre of a glass of water with it drifting to the edge (Proposition Bets); and the team offer a free locker service in a busy shopping centre, then take all the lockers away complete with their contents (The Lock-Up).

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  22. The Real Hustle Season 7 Episode 7 - On Holiday, Episode 7
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    #22 - On Holiday, Episode 7

    S7:E7

    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 pushy attitude to force 'lucky heather' on people in the street, but is actually picking their pockets (The Unlucky Heather Hustle); Paul bets that he can get over a hundred drops of wine out of a drained wine bottle (Proposition Bets); and Paul and Jess sell stolen theatre tickets to people in a bar (We Will We Will Rob You Scam).

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  23. The Real Hustle Season 7 Episode 8 - On Holiday, Episode 8
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    #23 - On Holiday, Episode 8

    S7:E8

    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 car park attendant to sell bogus parking tickets to tourists (Superpass); Alex demonstrates how to put a balloon in a flame without it bursting (Proposition Bets); and Jess shows how giving a cheap gift to some people renting a holiday cottage helps her obtain £200 from them as a so-called deposit (The Gift Basket Con).

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  24. The Real Hustle Season 7 Episode 9 - On Holiday, Episode 9
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    #24 - On Holiday, Episode 9

    S7:E9

    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 change a tyre (The Good Samaritan Scam); Liz McClarnon is challenged to stand a bottle upright using a fork (Celebrity Con Games); and Alex and Jess never quite let marks win the big prizes in a fairground game (Lucky Tickets).

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  25. The Real Hustle Season 7 Episode 10 - On Holiday, Episode 10
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    #25 - On Holiday, Episode 10

    S7:E10

    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 you can never win (Razzle Dazzle); and Jess wins a bar bet using Möbius strips (Proposition Bets).

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Las Vegas, Episode 4" is the worst rated episode of "The Real Hustle". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/25/2008. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Las Vegas, Episode 5".