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This is an episode list for The Real Hustle. All dates are the first broadcast on BBC Three in the United Kingdom. more...
Series 1
Episode 1
Air date: 9 Feb 2006
The team perform the classic monte scam at the beach.
Episode 2
Air date: 16 Feb 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.
Episode 3
Air date: 23 Feb 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.
Episode 4
Air date: 2 Mar 2006
The team trick 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 in a Black money scam, perform a proposition bet in a cafe, show the postman scam in the art of the pickpocket and deceive three professional poker players from
Episode 5
Air date: 9 Mar 2006
The hustlers 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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