The Real Hustle - Season 2

First aired: 9/7/2006 10 episodes

Episodes

1. 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.

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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.