They’re con-artists at work – skillfully swiping a man’s wallet, stealing money from an ATM and even scamming restaurant patrons out of thousands of dollars.

The brazen scams are part of a controversial new TV show called The Real Hustle, which debuts Tuesday on truTV, the new name for courtTV.

In the show, Danni Marco, Apollo Robbins and Ryan Oakes pose as con-artists and show how easy it is to rip people off.

“A lot of times people believe I’m too savvy that would never happen to me,” says Robbins.  “We're here to prove otherwise,” says the trio of tricksters.

Robbins is a security expert, Oakes a professional magician and Marco is an actress.  It is Marco’s job to distract the victims.

Marco tells INSIDE EDITION that there are drawbacks to taking part in a show about conning people.  “I'm not going to get a date in my life,” Marco jokes. 

The three work as a team and use cutting edge technology to “scam” thousands of dollars from ordinary Joes and later tell the “victims” how the “scam” was pulled off.

ATMs are everywhere, but the show questions whether they are really safe to use.

The group places a device over an ATM card slot and steals a woman's bank information and PIN.  Then they imprint the information on a hotel room key and empty her bank account.  When they show her how they did it, she's in shock.

In a restaurant Marco poses as a waitress and uses a card scanning device hidden at her waist to transmit unsuspecting diners' credit card information to her accomplices.  It's so easy...it's down-right scary!

The show also details how artfully the threesome can pick pockets.  “A pickpocket team is like a football team…each person has a position and a title.”

The team spots a victim.  The man’s just withdrawn $100.  Then as he crosses the street, Marco distracts him while Robbins picks his pocket.

“The Hustlers” do it again and again – using a different method every time.

But the trio insists that they are not trying to give criminals the upper hand, and are instead trying to give viewers the tools “so they can recognize they’re being conned.”