A team of hustlers - Alexis Conran, Paul Wilson and Jessica-Jane Clement, try out some notorious scams on ‘marks’, filmed with hidden cameras. The aim is to reveal how scams work so that the viewer can avoid being ripped off by the same con.
Showing Season 9 of 12
Season 9
2010
A team of hustlers lift the lid on the most devious scams to target the British public.
01. Celebrity Scammers: The Jewellery Store Heist
2010-07-29
Matt Willis joins the regular gang of Alex, Jess and Paul to rob a jewellery store with a security disguise and and a couple of cameras which allows for them to get the alarm code and the keys for the front door. Jess infects a business man's laptop with a virus which locks out his computer and then Paul rings on a phone left nearby asking for money for the code to save all his files.
02. Celebrity Scammers: The Knockout
2010-07-29
Brendan Cole joins Alex, Jess and Paul in this episode and he has to show that Alex has been cheating in a card game to convince the marks to join in with a bet on a boxing match later in the day which Paul says he can rig in the marks favour. While Jess and Alex steal a car from a car dealership by previously researching the key to the car and then finding a similar key and tag and then swap the keys when Jess goes later.
03. Celebrity Scammers: The Double Whammy
2010-08-05
Zöe Salmon joins the group this week as she and Alex decide to change the Vehicle Identification Number of a car that is going to be sold and they decide to take the money someone else paid for it and the car later. While Jess becomes a mystic and gives her customers a free reading but when turn out quite accurate they decide to give her money for the reading.
04. Celebrity Scammers: The Art Attack
2010-08-12
Lisa Snowdon joins the team this week to get some parks buy a cheap painting which they think is worth a lot more so they enter it into an auction hoping to get around £2000 but Paul gets them to bid to drive up the price. While Alex and Paul fine a man £200 for failing to respond to Jury Duty summons
05. Celebrity Scammers: Under the Influence
2010-08-19
Anthony Costa joins the team this week and sells cheap vodka at wholesale prices only for the marks to be stop by Alex and Paul who tell them that store maybe selling counterfeit goods and to use them to pay for another order from Anthony and try and trap him . Also the team disconnect a woman's satellite signal and then ask for the credit card details in order for them to reconnect her straight away.
06. Celebrity Scammers: Done and Dusted
2010-08-26
Kelli Young joins the group this week and becomes a cleaner along with Jess to clean up a marks house who believes it will be featured in a magazine while Alex and Paul convince the mark to replace a picture on the wall with one that is meant to be worth £10,000 only for Kelli to then ruin the painting with a solvent and then get the mark to pay up some money for it. Also Jess and Paul become Tax-people and tell the marks they are due a big refund and get the marks to give them their bank account details and official identification.
07. Celebrity Scammers: The Scrap Trap
2010-09-03
Ben Hull joins the team this week and is tasked with getting a business card from a car dealership and then passes to Paul in front of the marks so he can pretend to be him and tell the marks about cars that are about to be scrapped and therefore cannot be sold in the country so they give the marks four thousand pounds to buy scrapped car but Ben has switched the bags so they only get money. Jess and Paul are giving away free diamond cut shredders to shred their credit card bills and other such items unfortunately for the mark there's a scanner inside the shredder and therefore all the information goes straight to the hustlers.
08. Celebrity Scammers: The Audition
2010-09-10
No overview available.
09. The Inheritance
2010-09-17
No overview available.
10. Celebrity Scammers: The Diamond Geezer
2010-09-17
No overview available.
