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S3 · E1Episode 1 2007-03-15 · 29 min

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.

S3 · E2Episode 2 2007-03-22 · 29 min

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.

S3 · E3Episode 3 2007-03-29 · 29 min

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.

S3 · E4Episode 4 2007-04-05 · 29 min

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.

S3 · E5Episode 5 2007-04-12 · 29 min

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.

S3 · E6Episode 6 2007-04-19 · 29 min

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.

S3 · E7Episode 7 2007-04-26 · 29 min

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.

S3 · E8Episode 8 2007-05-03 · 29 min

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.

S6 · E1High Stakes, Episode 1 2008-10-09 · 29 min

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.

S6 · E2High Stakes, Episode 2 2008-10-16 · 29 min

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.

S6 · E3High Stakes, Episode 3 2008-10-23 · 29 min

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).

S6 · E4High Stakes, Episode 4 2008-10-30 · 29 min

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).

S6 · E5High Stakes, Episode 5 2008-11-06 · 29 min

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).

S6 · E6High Stakes, Episode 6 2008-11-13 · 29 min

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).

S6 · E7High Stakes, Episode 7 2008-11-20 · 29 min

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).

S6 · E8High Stakes, Episode 8 2008-11-27 · 29 min

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).

S6 · E9High Stakes, Episode 9 2008-12-04 · 29 min

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).

S6 · E10High Stakes, Episode 10 2008-12-11 · 29 min

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).

S8 · E1Undercover Episode 1 2010-01-14 · 29 min

The hustlers go shopping for expensive sports cars and drive away with their biggest pay day yet. Alex, Paul and Jess teach Danny Dyer the ropes as he becomes the first celebrity hustler, and Paul and Jess discover a miracle smoking cure that has punters queueing up to buy.

S8 · E2Undercover Episode 2 2010-01-21 · 29 min

The gang organize a charity raffle to get the guests money and then win the prizes themselves. Paul and Alex scam some people by making them think they are speeding and Emilia Fox is taking part this week to scam the public.

S8 · E3Undercover Episode 3 2010-01-28 · 29 min

Jess becomes a pregnant woman to get peoples attention when she's clumsy while Paul swoops in and steals their bag. Alex then returns the bag but their mobile phones are missing which becomes something much bigger and this week model Caprice takes part in conning the public but will she pull it off?

S8 · E4Undercover Episode 4 2010-02-04 · 29 min

A sofa becomes a antique dealer's worst nightmare when one is delivered with a certain con-woman hidden inside and a missing dog means becomes lost cash for one woman. Plus this week Danielle Lloyd takes part in Celebrity Hustle.

S8 · E5Undercover Episode 5 2010-02-04 · 29 min

Some pirate DVD's lead to a hefty fine for some people and the gang set up a recruitment office for some members of the public to try and become a mystery shopper. Plus in this episode Iain Lee is taking part in the hustles.

S8 · E6Episode 6 2010-02-11 · 29 min

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