The Real Hustle

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 2006-02-09

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.

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 2006-02-16

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.

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 2006-02-23

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.

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 2006-03-02

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.

5. Episode 5

Air Date: 2006-03-09

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.

6. Episode 6

Air Date: 2006-03-16

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.

7. Episode 7

Air Date: 2006-03-23

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.

8. Episode 8

Air Date: 2006-03-30

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.

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 2006-09-07

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

Air Date: 2006-09-14

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

Air Date: 2006-09-21

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

Air Date: 2006-09-28

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

Air Date: 2006-10-05

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

Air Date: 2006-10-12

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

Air Date: 2006-10-19

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

Air Date: 2006-10-26

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

Air Date: 2006-11-02

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

Air Date: 2006-11-09

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.

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 2007-03-15

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.

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 2007-03-22

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.

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 2007-03-29

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.

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 2007-04-05

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.

5. Episode 5

Air Date: 2007-04-12

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.

6. Episode 6

Air Date: 2007-04-19

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.

7. Episode 7

Air Date: 2007-04-26

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.

8. Episode 8

Air Date: 2007-05-03

Paul and Alex sell dodgy camcorders from a white van to unsuspecting members of the public. The gang con a pub into letting them take away a fruit machine in plain sight. Jess wins a proposition bet involving three stacks of 10p coins. Alex, posing as a respectable restaurant owner, sells one bottle of cheap wine for £240. Alex and Paul steal chips from other players in a casino.

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 2007-07-30

Alex and Jess rob a hotel room by posing as hotel employees; Jess and Paul pretend to be from a film crew, ask a mark if they can rent his car as a prop, and drive off right in front of him; Jess wins a proposition bet using three full and three empty shot glasses, then scams herself a free beauty session; the hustlers head to Ibiza to fool holidaymakers into parting with their money for some worthless purses.

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 2007-08-06

Alex and Jess empty a house by faking a security survey and a prize draw; in Ibiza, the team sell fake jewels; Paul wins a proposition bet involving money and your third finger; Alex swaps the padlock from a fitness club attender and clears out his locker; and the hustlers sell bogus miracle fat-busting products.

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 2007-08-13

The hustlers sell a fake device which supposedly adds credit to an Oyster Card; cheat in 3 card brag by marking cards and using reflections; win a proposition bet trying to knock a 10p piece off your forehead; demonstrate pickpocketing using distraction techniques; and use police costumes to sell advertising in a fake magazine.

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 2007-08-20

The hustlers pass counterfeit cash by previously handing shops a pen that supposedly detects counterfeit notes; demonstrate scams that a bartender can pull; get people to hand over their bank details in applying for a gym that will never be built; and show you how hustlers can cheat at the card game Gin. The proposition bet involves balancing a wine glass upright over a further two wine glasses, while none of them touch.

5. Episode 5

Air Date: 2007-08-27

The gang sell a car but keep a spare set of keys to steal it back (The Boomerang); install a fake cash machine to duplicate the cards and PINs of unsuspecting passers-by (The Cash Machine Con); win a proposition bet involving listing words without the letters A, B, C, J, K and M; go undercover as recruitment consultants but the only thing they're making a career out of is identity theft (The Recruitment Scam); and demonstrate electronic devices to help beat the casino (Casino Gambling Devices).

6. Episode 6

Air Date: 2007-09-03

The gang pull off an escrow scan by pretending to be a trustworthy pub landlord; manage to persuade a couple to give them £200 for some worthless vouchers in the pretense of a prize draw; sell overpriced goods (for example, 100 nails described as "100 metal coat hangers") without technically lying; and use skillful sleight-of-hand techniques to beat the Blackjack table. The probability bet involves drinking a shot of rum without spilling a drop.

7. Episode 7

Air Date: 2007-09-10

The hustlers make up an event, hire a band, then steal their equipment; sell fake tickets for a club night in Ibiza; demonstrate a fairground pendulum game that is physically impossible to win; and deliver empty parcels, cash on delivery, to unsuspecting small businesses. The proposition bet involves balancing a glass on top of three glasses and three knives.

8. Episode 8

Air Date: 2007-09-17

The gang rely on the goodwill of hotel owners towards (fake) VIP guests to make them pay for worthless deliveries; play Three-card Monte to hustle some holidaymakers; park a 'broken down' refrigerated delivery van in a residential street and need to sell its contents quickly, but sell empty boxes instead; and sell dolls' house furniture to people who assume it is the full size thing on an Internet auction site. The proposition bet involves separating two glasses without touching them.

9. Episode 9

Air Date: 2007-09-24

The hustlers fool a white van man into thinking he has hit a pedestrian and get him to pay for her "damaged" laptop (The Flop); rip-off some holidaymakers with what looks like a very cheap exchange rate but sell them blank paper instead of cash (Exchange Rate Rip-Off); demonstrate an unfair fairground game involving throwing hoops over clothes pegs (Peg A Prize) and drive off an expensive car with a fake hotel valet parking slip (Valet Steal). The Proposition Bet involves drinking from a sherry glass (placed upside down in a larger brandy glass) without touching it with your hands.

10. Episode 10

Air Date: 2007-10-01

Paul takes full advantage of a hotel's services (and room contents) using nothing more than an air of authority (Fake Doctor); a lure of big money for little work puts an unquestioning member of the public in a difficult position (Reshipping Scam); the Proposition Bet is that a coin can't be removed from beneath two balanced matches; the Cover The Spot fairground game is shown to be harder than it looks; and the team walk off with the personal belongings of a cafe's customers in less than 3 minutes, under the pretense of storing them in a cloakroom (Get Yer Coat).

11. Episode 11

Air Date: 2007-10-08

The hustlers dress up as security guards, turn up at a shop which is expecting its weekly cash takings to be collected, and walk off with the loot; pose as the legitimate owners of sunloungers and collect rental fees from holidaymakers on the beach; man a rigged fun fair stall where people try and throw a ball into a basket; and pretend to be strangers and secretly collude in order to win a poker tournament. The proposition bet is to move an egg from one glass to another without touching it and without moving the glasses.

12. Episode 12

Air Date: 2007-10-15

The gang hire some expensive jewelry for a fake photo shoot, which comes accompanied by security guards, and walk out with it via a hidden door behind a changing curtain; and con some holidaymakers into believing they need to pay a fine for speeding. The proposition bet involves throwing a glass of beer in someone's face. The episode ends with a recap of some of the cons from this series.

1. Las Vegas, Episode 1

Air Date: 2008-02-12

The gang decide it's time to hit Las Vegas in this latest series. The gang take $80,000 worth of jewellery with the help of disguise, Jess shows you how to double your money and they show you how Casino staff can steal your chips while playing.

2. Las Vegas, Epsiode 2

Air Date: 2008-02-12

Jess dresses up to steal hotel guest\'s belongings while Paul and Alex will do the same with the guest\'s cars. They also decide to steal a couple of grand from a casino.

3. Las Vegas, Episode 3

Air Date: 2008-02-19

The team decide they want the pot in the a Blackjack game, Jess uses her feminine charms to win some money at pool and they also show you how conmen will go to extremes to pickpocket you.

4. Las Vegas, Episode 4

Air Date: 2008-02-25

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.

5. Las Vegas, Episode 5

Air Date: 2008-03-03

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.

6. Las Vegas, Episode 6

Air Date: 2008-03-10

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.

7. Las Vegas, Episode 7

Air Date: 2008-03-17

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.

8. Las Vegas, Episode 8

Air Date: 2008-03-24

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.

1. High Stakes, Episode 1

Air Date: 2008-10-09

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.

2. High Stakes, Episode 2

Air Date: 2008-10-16

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.

3. High Stakes, Episode 3

Air Date: 2008-10-23

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).

4. High Stakes, Episode 4

Air Date: 2008-10-30

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).

5. High Stakes, Episode 5

Air Date: 2008-11-06

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).

6. High Stakes, Episode 6

Air Date: 2008-11-13

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).

7. High Stakes, Episode 7

Air Date: 2008-11-20

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).

8. High Stakes, Episode 8

Air Date: 2008-11-27

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).

9. High Stakes, Episode 9

Air Date: 2008-12-04

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).

10. High Stakes, Episode 10

Air Date: 2008-12-11

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).

1. New Recruits - 1

Air Date: 2011-09-05

Polly Parsons and Jazz Lintott join Jess Clement, Alexis Conran and Paul Wilson in their mission to expose cons and crimes that catch the public out on a regular basis. Former Emmerdale actress Roxanne Pallet goes undercover to help the hustlers steal from a watch store

2. New Recruits - 2

Air Date: 2011-09-12

Pop Idol's Gareth Gates plays the role of a stock market trader in a bogus business scam.

3. New Recruits - 3

Air Date: 2011-09-19

Former Eastenders wheeler dealer Joe Swash goes undercover, posing as a member of a film crew in a scam to relieve a TV rentals shop of a shipment of flatscreen TVs.

4. New Recruits - 4

Air Date: 2011-09-26

Dance act Diversity's front man Ashley Banjo goes undercover in an art scam.

5. New Recruits - 5

Air Date: 2011-10-03

Crimewatch presenter Rav Wilding is a guest hustler in a scam involving gold chains.

6. New Recruits - 6

Air Date: 2011-10-10

Hollyoaks actress Jennifer Metcalfe goes undercover in a lottery syndicate scam.

7. New Recruits - 7

Air Date: 2011-10-24

Hollyoaks actress Sarah Jayne Dunn goes undercover with Alex in a scam involving luxury watches, and Paul poses as a security guard for a local shopping precinct.

8. New Recruits - 8

Air Date: 2011-10-31

Colin Murray poses as poker magazine journalist, helping the hustlers pull off a scam.

9. Episode 9

Air Date: 2011-11-07

10. New Recruits - 10

Air Date: 2012-01-20

Actress Adele Silva helps the hustlers in a scam which involves the Forth Railway Bridge

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 2012-01-27

Ex-Boyzone member Shane Lynch goes undercover as a tramp to help pull off a devious heist.

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 2012-02-03

The Only Way Is Essex star Sam Faiers goes undercover as an ex-wife to help the Hustlers con a mark into buying part of the divorce settlement - 'husband' Alex's flash sports car.

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 2012-02-10

Radio 1 DJ Nihal helps con two unsuspecting marks into buying a bronze sculpture.

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 2012-02-17

TV presenter Laura Hamilton helps the Hustlers scam a mark who's accused of stealing cash.

5. Episode 5

Air Date: 2012-02-24

Shameless and EastEnders star Jody Latham helps the Hustlers pull off a gambling scam.

6. Episode 6

Air Date: 2012-03-02

Hollyoaks star Gemma Atkinson helps pull off a real-life game of Grand Theft Auto.

7. Episode 7

Air Date: 2012-03-09

Ex-Hollyoaks star Marcus Patrick joins the team in a con involving some buried treasure.

8. Episode 8

Air Date: 2012-03-16

Ex-Coronation Street star Lucien Laviscount joins the team for an antiques-based con.

9. Episode 9

Air Date: 2012-03-23

Former Blue Peter Presenter Konnie Huq joins the Hustlers in a scam involving time-share deals on a Scottish castle.

10. Busted

Air Date: 2012-03-30

Even the very best con artists make mistakes sometimes and this episode exposes what happens when scams go wrong. Guest hustlers, boxer Joe Calzaghe, and EastEnders star, Sid Owen, get involved in a crazy con set in the world of vintage stamps that turns out to be the strangest scam in the history of the Real Hustle.