{"id":1398,"date":"2006-02-09T22:51:48","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T22:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2006\/02\/the_real_hustle\/"},"modified":"2006-02-09T22:51:48","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T22:51:48","slug":"the_real_hustle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/the_real_hustle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Hustle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if this is some kind of precurssor to a new series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/drama\/hustle\/\">The Hustle<\/a>, but BBC Three has just shown a programme called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbcthree\/tv\/real_hustle.shtml\">The Real Hustle<\/a>. They showed a series of genuine &#8220;hustles&#8221; using their own hustlers on unwitting members of the public showing some common scams with hidden cameras recording the action.<br \/>\nThere wasn&#8217;t anything too surprising, although it certainly showed that people fall for this stuff too easily. I know someone who fell for the &#8220;mustard&#8221; scam which is just a diversionary tactic to pick your pocket.<br \/>\nThey also showed a key-logging scam where a keyboard with a hardware logger fitted inside it. They showed the scammers collecting the data in a van outside. On-screen the bank details they were capturing were blurred out. Except it really wasn&#8217;t done very well. Pausing the footage revealed all the details. I can only hope that the lady who was &#8220;scammed&#8221; has fully changed all her password details.<br \/>\nA couple of weeks ago in the Stephen Fry edition of Who Do You Think You Are, the makers very carefully blurred out his number plate in one shot. A couple of scenes later, a shot showed Fry driving off with the numberplate completly unobscured and filling up a high proportion of the screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if this is some kind of precurssor to a new series of The Hustle, but BBC Three has just shown a programme called The Real Hustle. They showed a series of genuine &#8220;hustles&#8221; using their own hustlers on unwitting members of the public showing some common scams with hidden cameras recording the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}