Barcelona's crowded tourist strips, from Las Ramblas to the beaches, draw a steady population of pickpockets and con artists working the same routines on visitors every day. Economist and author Conor Woodman goes in as a mark, walking the same streets with an undercover camera crew watching from a distance while hidden cameras catch the actual thefts happening around him. He lets himself get set up by the classic distraction plays, the fake police checks, the sleight-of-hand card games, and the crews who work in pairs to lift wallets and phones while a tourist is looking the other way. Local police and reformed scammers talk through how the tricks are built and why they keep working on people who think they are being careful. Woodman treats himself as bait rather than narrator, so the footage shows the con happening in real time rather than describing it after the fact. The result works as a practical rundown of the specific scams running in one city, with the losses landing on camera rather than in a warning voice-over.