The Real Hustle
| The Real Hustle | |
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| Starring | Alexis Conran Paul Wilson Jessica-Jane Clement |
| Country of origin |  United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 48 (as of 24 March 2008) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 29 mins |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC Three |
| Release | February 9 2006 – Present |
The Real Hustle is a BBC television series made by Objective Productions and written by Anthony Waldron, Alexis Conran and Paul Wilson. The show demonstrates confidence and magic tricks, distraction scams and proposition bets performed on members of the public by presenters, Alexis Conran, Paul Wilson and Jessica-Jane Clement. Series 1 and 2 were narrated by Dean Lennox Kelly, with series 3 onwards narrated by Steven Jackson.
Example of scams
- A deposit is taken on a car multiple times from different people who turn up to buy it.
- A computer keyboard is replaced with one containing a key logger and bank details are obtained
- A skimmer device is placed on a cashpoint with a pinhole camera inside it records the information on the user's cards magnetic strip along with their PIN; the data is then put on the magnetic strip of an e-top up card which is used to withdraw money from the victim's account
- The Black money scam, at a market stall