Has anyone here heard of this documentary TV show called Scam City?

It's about this British guy who travels to different cities around the world and uncovers scams. He has a film crew with hidden cameras and they get involved with local criminals who show them how to take money from tourists lol.

Such an interesting documentary and it's made me think twice about visiting some places :P

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Its amazing. I watch every ep. Rome is not so innocent.

11 years ago
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I still haven't seen the Rome episode, but Barcelona really surprised me. The Romanian gangs pick pockets in broad daylight, crazy.

11 years ago
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It's this guys, joking aside the Rome episode should be similar Barcelona, since Spain and Italy are main countries where gypsies go to steal.

11 years ago
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Quite sad really, there was a whole family of pick pockets in the Barcelona episode. The mother, sons, grandfather, uncle, all living in a nice apartment. That's messed up :S

11 years ago
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I'm from Barcelona, where can i watch this episode? I dont know this documentary...

11 years ago
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You can cough cough, find it online. Try searching Scam City Barcelona in Youtube first.

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Thanks, I post on my "siesta time" and I didn't think a lot about how find it xD

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http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk0rda8YDA1qb84lwo1_500.jpg

Seems like a cool show though. I'll check it out.

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Not only Barca. All episodes are AAA-quality. Have you seen Istanbul ?

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My first guess is about Sim, my second is about SG

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not even surprised czech republic has its own episode

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It's god damn amazing, dude! I've watched everything now.

And yea it really makes you more cautious when going on vacations or anything else.

I wonder if there will be a season two...

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I'll probably add it to my list of things to watch. Thanks

11 years ago
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You're welcome. It's one of those "surprising" shows, so hopefully you'll enjoy it.

11 years ago
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Sounds interesting. I will check it out.

11 years ago
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I expected a rant thread about SimCity and EA.

11 years ago
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haha, well that would be quite understandable, given the name :P

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+1 :D

wupwup

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Sounds pretty interesting.

Made me remember an old British TV program which would always end up with the reporter chasing a conman of some kind down the street and shouting through their letterbox. Can't remember the name though.

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Can't say I've seen that. Was it a comedy or serious?

11 years ago
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Serious. It's pretty old though, watched it as a kid. Thought it was 'The Cook Report', but when I searched on the net doesn't seem to be right.
Probably a lot of them though - cowboy builders etc.

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I'll need to look into that. Sounds decent.

11 years ago
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We still have a few of those though they're mainly targeted at cowboy builders. They chase them around neighbourhoods with cameras shouting out a list of their scams. Very entertaining.

11 years ago
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Yup saw the one about Istanbul

11 years ago
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Istanbul is scary :S If I ever visit, I'm not going anywhere near that dodgy club or trusting the "plain clothes policemen".

11 years ago
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I went to internet cafe in Marmaris had to photocopy some lecture notes, I copied max 10 paper and paid 20 lira ._. It supposed to be 1 lira max,in cities where tourists are a lot, everything is ridiculously expensive

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Woah, that's like 7 GBP D: What bastards.

11 years ago
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Its too much right? Not sure what are the prices there :D It supposed to be 10 kuruş each paper :D

11 years ago
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That's so cheap haha. At my university, it was like 20-30 pence for one sheet. A lot more than you, but I've never been scammed while trying to use it :P

11 years ago
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Shieeet feels poor

11 years ago
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*lucky Murat, you're lucky!

11 years ago
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If you are interested in this show, you should watch The Real Hustle.

Brits and their cons.

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Yeah, I've seen that. They're so skillful it's scary!

11 years ago
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Love that show!

11 years ago
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Ooh, I'll definitely watch that! Hustle is one of my favorite series.

11 years ago
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I know about it, but I've only partially watched 1 or 2 episodes. I've added it to my "To watch" list just now, thanks for reminding me about it.

11 years ago
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You're welcome :) Not a very long series, but still worth watching if it interests you.

11 years ago
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when i saw the subject line i thought you'd be talking about Steam Gifts or Steam Trades XD

hmm this sounds really interesting, i think i'll check this out :)

11 years ago
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Not EVERYTHING on Steamgifts is related to Steamgifts lol. It's refreshing to be in a thread without arguments.

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no no its not XD Just when someone reads "Scam" around here they usually think it is haha. it really is refreshing :) do you know how many episodes there are? or if they still produce new ones?

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Ah right, I didn't consider that :P

There are only 10 episodes in season one. No more episodes have been released so far.

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oo plenty for me to watch x3 i assume theyre around an hour each. not bad

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Thought this would be a rant topic. Booooring :P

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Shush then, I never rant :P

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Is there an episode for HK? If not, there really should be!

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Not yet........is that your recommendation? lol

My experience of Hong Kong was wonderful and happy. Don't you dare ruin that.

11 years ago
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No scamming of tourists where I live :D

wupwup

11 years ago
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Greenland?

11 years ago
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Close but no cigar wupwup!

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Hey, close is better than far! I would say Canada then?

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Scandinavia :P

11 years ago
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Well.. We dont have this in the TV, so I will try to search for the show in the webs :P

Thanks Jonex ;d

11 years ago
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Got it from the "webs" myself.

wink wink

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LOL, PERFECT.

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Also I would like to see an episode about Israel, we the jews probably scam the best xD

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I've seen a few shows about Israel and the zionist jews. I personally found them really funny (no offence). Not sure what happens in the standard jewish society though, you'll have to fill me in on those details :P

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Well I watched the first episode about Argentina, and I have to say we probably dont have such amount of scams here.

I dont even think we have a fake money system going on here, we once had fake coins but it was really easy to check if they are fake or not (they wieghted much less then regular coins).

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Well those Argentinians, they're pros lmao.

11 years ago
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Damn this show is epic, I'm watching now the 5th episode, thanks for your recommendation Jonex :)

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The Rio episode is on youtube.

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Great show :)

11 years ago
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Hmm....interesting. I'll check it for sure

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I thought this was about SimCity scammers. XD

Too bad it doesn't air in my country yet. (At least I think it doesn't..) Seems like a great idea for a show.

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Read the wiki and it looks damn interesting. Thx for increasing my tv zambie tyme! :D

11 years ago
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Anything for a fellow zambie.

(I immediately think of a baby zombie, which is just messed up)

11 years ago
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Like the one from Dawn of the Dead? That was one messed up zambie baby!

11 years ago
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That creeps me out just thinking about it. At least it didn't jump out of the blanket and crawl around the place :S

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Thanks, I will give it a try, looks interesting

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I thought this was about Steamtrades

11 years ago
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Check out this deja vu.

11 years ago
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I feel like i tore a fabric in space-time continuum for a second (or a year, doesn't matter)

11 years ago
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You did.

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Is S1 over? Any word about S2?

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I'll say this much. I tend to be suspicious of "documentaries" that have has many cuts as this has. I'm not saying the whole show is just set-up and bs. Just take everything you see there with a grain of salt. As this probably is more like "Man vs Wild", "the worst case scenario" ^^ and everything isn't as it seems.

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Closed 11 years ago by Jonex.