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Con (2005)

Con poster
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 8 episodes
Rating
8.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A former con artist demonstrates how scams work by performing them on camera. He tricks people into giving him free food or services by pretending he is making a movie or TV show.

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What happens

Con is a television series on Comedy Central in which con artist Skyler Stone revealed the secrets of his profession by performing confidence tricks, scams, and hoaxes of various degrees of complexity on camera. These could range from simply claiming that an order for food was botched, to claiming to be a certain profession, which required training (received through cons). In one episode Stone showed how he received free soft drinks at fast food restaurants by retaining paper cups from various fast food restaurants and then refilling them at soda fountains. Most of his cons revolved around him claiming that he is filming a television show or movie of some sort, and that the product or service he wished to acquire would be advertised in the film or show. The products did wind up getting free advertisement – but on Con, not where they were told. Six episodes of the show were aired in 2005. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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