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Encyclopedia > Booster bag scam

The booster bag scam was a scam demonstrated in the TV show The Real Hustle. The scam is when a person enters a public place e.g bar, cafe with a large bag. The bag has the bottom of it cut out. This person then puts the bag over someone's purse or any other item and a mechanism inside the bag grabs hold of the item. The person then simply walks away as nothing has happened. This scam can be hard to spot as it is done so quickly and so silent. A paper bag is a container that is usually used for storing or holding something. ... The Real Hustle is a BBC Three television series made by Objective Productions demonstrating confidence and magic tricks and distraction scams performed on members of the public by presenters, Alex Conran, Paul Wilson and Jessica-Jane Clement. ... A confidence trick, confidence game, or con for short, (also known as a scam) is an attempt to intentionally mislead a person or persons (known as the mark) usually with the goal of financial or other gain. ... Public is of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; opposed to private; as, the public treasury, a road or lake. ... Tourists sit outside a bar in Chiang Mai, Thailand A Depression-era bar in Louisiana. ... The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulations in the United States, first enacted by Congress in 1975, exist to regulate and improve the average fuel economy of cars and light trucks (trucks, vans and sport utility vehicles) sold in the US. Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) is the sales weighted... Purses, such as this one by Burberry, are fashion accessories with a function. ... Mechanism is the following: In general, a mechanism is part of a chain of causes leading to some object or process. ...



 

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