SCAMMERS! >> [screaming] >> SCAMMERS! GET OUT OF HERE!

YOU! YOU! SCAMMERS!

SCAMMERS! SCAMMERS! GET OVER HERE, FAT BOY!

THAT'S me hunting a gang of scammers in London, England. >> Scammers! What's going on?

Scammers! You! Yes, you!

And that's a scammer giving me a taste of my own medicine. It all began 48 hours ago when I met up with London's number one pickpocket hunter, Diego, aka Pickpocket London. No coming here to stealing people, yeah?

Why are you here to stealing people, yeah? You're here again stealing As long as they are covered by paint, like red paint, they don't have how [music] to steal anymore. And you brought me a gift.

>> Yeah, it's gold in London, actually. >> The iconic red spray paint. This is criminal identifier?

Exactly. >> And this is legal to spray right in their mouth? Depends of the situation is legal.

The situations that we explore is legal. >> Okay, and if things get shiesty, we have Red. And Sonia.

Two professional bodyguards just in case things get dicey. Our story begins when Diego spotted a gang of cup-and-ball scammers swindling tourists on the Westminster Bridge. The scam is simple.

If you pick the cup where the ball is under, you win. But the game master and this entire crowd is actually part of the same gang. They're to show tourists walking by how easy it is to win, and then when you play, the ball is hidden in the game master's hand and impossible to win.

>> So, the group you're going to be in the middle of the bridge. Get out of here. Scammers!

Scammers! >> No, no, no, no, no, no. Our game now.

Our game now. >> Get out, yeah? Where are you?

Which ones? This one? Where, where, where?

These ones? Is this you? Is you?

Never. But don't be fooled. This is literally the cup shuffler himself, and amidst the chaos, these rats try to blend into the crowd, and it often works.

Right here, right here, this one right here. You got a spotter over here? Look at him, this one right here.

He's running! He's running! He's running!

WHERE ARE YOU RUNNING? WHERE ARE YOU RUNNING, BOY? THIEF RIGHT HERE, WE HAVE SCAMMER RIGHT HERE.

WHERE ARE YOU RUNNING? WHERE ARE YOU RUNNING? WHERE ARE YOU RUNNING?

HE'S GOING TO GET HIT BY a car. Watch out, watch out, WATCH OUT FOR THE CARS. That's scammers.

Yep. We have the game. Run.

He's running! He's going to GET HIMSELF KILLED. SCAMMER!

SCAMMER! AND HE'S GONE. Like a rat.

All right, there he is. We're coming! Guy running, where did he go?

All right, thanks, mate. Thank you. All right, where did he go?

Where's the guy running? All right, we got to keep looking. We got his stuff, we got his goods.

Anyone see a guy running with a red jacket? Ah, I see, they know the escape routes. That's what I've learned.

These guys are so bold, though, they probably just respawned. Yeah, yeah. As Diego led me to the spot he says these rats are known to hide after being caught red-handed.

Diego recognized one of their veteran spotters. Spotter, as you know. What about these guys?

>> Yeah, he's a thief, yeah. Yeah, you tricking the people here in the bridge, you. You.

Where is their group now? You. Get the police.

We need the police. Get the police. Call 11111.

You. Are you going to turn to justice, yeah? Scammer!

Scammer! Don't spit! DON'T SPIT NEAR LITTLE KIDS!

HE'S HACKING UP A LOOGIE, YOU! YOU! YEAH, you didn't You didn't do a very good job today, you >> Don't be a thief.

Come here. Come here. COME HERE.

ALL RIGHT, LET'S GO, LET'S GO. COME. HERE, HERE, HERE.

HEY, GIVE BACK. GIVE BACK. GIVE BACK.

GIVE BACK. Don't take our stuff. Give it back.

Get out of here. Don't be a thief. Don't be a thief.

Don't be a thief. You're a bad boy. You're a bad boy.

You're a naughty boy. We need to get you a 9-to-5. Where does he want us to go?

Where does he want us to go? You know him, is he an old friend? What's happened to you?

I sprayed myself. >> [laughter] >> How long have you known him? For years.

Years, so he's an old face. Yeah, he's an old face. You want to spray him like a painting?

>> [laughter] >> No more stealing! No more stealing! NO MORE STEALING!

PICKPOCKETS! [screaming] >> SCAMMERS! PICKPOCKETS!

No scammers today anymore in the bridge. >> No? Yeah.

Is that Yeah. You can go if you want. Be gone.

Get out of here. No more stealing. Talk as much as you might about these thieves, they never give up.

Nah, they never give up, yeah. But I won't stop until the whole gang is painted in red with my 100% legal criminal identifier spray. Meanwhile, having stolen the cup-and-ball game from the scammers themselves, Diego received a tip that a Chilean pickpocket couple was on the loose stealing bags from innocent people.

She just stole a bag? Yeah. Chileans?

Diego is going through his sources right now. He says two Chileans just stole a bag. We're going to intercept them.

Diego is constantly receiving feedback from the local community. Yeah, two Chileans. He's getting intel from one of your sources.

>> Yeah, this is from now. But last week they did another [music] victims, but someone catch them red-handed, you know? Now, this one is from 1 week ago, 3 of April.

Okay. Like last Friday. That's them stealing in the guy's shop.

>> Yeah. So, that's these two stealing. >> manager The manager stopped them.

Yeah, they say it's all a bag. So, now if we spot them on the street, we're going to straight away for spray or call the police and say, "Oh, this And you know what they look like. Yeah.

Call Tyler. Call Tyler. And just to emphasize Diego's insane memory of countless pickpockets' faces and just how many of them are active on any given day, while I was using the toilet, Diego spotted a different South American pickpocket couple he recognized as they suspiciously eyed an Asian family's bag.

These two individuals are well-known in Central London, a couple who have been operating for years using the same method every time, distraction, quick approach, and within seconds your belongings [music] are gone. They've been spotted multiple times in busy areas across the city, especially around shops and tourist hotspots. On one occasion, he was caught red-handed inside Primark stealing a phone directly from a customer.

They work together in coordination. One distracts while the other carries out the theft. If you're in Central London, stay alert.

Take a good look at these faces. We're looking for them. Be careful, guys.

You have two pickpockets here that was attempting to take your stuff. Run. I'm here with >> On London, let's go, dude.

We ran into you in the wild. You've joined the hunt with us. Are you ready?

>> Join the hunt and we spotted two pickpockets. Okay, lead the way. No stealing today, yeah?

No stealing today. Pickpockets! PICKPOCKETS!

PICKPOCKETS! >> [screaming] >> PICKPOCKETS! PICKPOCKET!

PICKPOCKET! PICKPOCKETS! PICKPOCKET!

PICKPOCKET! PICKPOCKET! You've been absconding.

But these professional thieves were playing dumb and wouldn't wait for the police. >> Pickpocket! You Stay here.

Stay here. Stay here. Stay here.

You was trying to touch him to the Chinese. STAY HERE. PICKPOCKETS!

WE WAIT HERE FOR THE POLICE. STAY. STAY.

STAY. STAY. STAY.

Just stay. Stay. Stay.

Stay. Stay. Stay.

Just stay. Stay. Stay.

Stay. Stay. Oh my goodness.

Luckily, a bystander stepped in and restrained the thief trying to escape. Pickpockets! While his girlfriend began to run.

Yeah. Yeah, crazy. Let's return there.

Come here. PICKPOCKETS! PICKPOCKETS!

You're going to come for the police. >> We have two rats right here. EVERYONE CALM DOWN.

PICKPOCKET, RELAX! EVERYONE RELAX! RELAX!

No more pickpocketing. No more pickpocketing. GUYS, JUST RELAX.

RELAX. RELAX. RELAX.

RELAX. Just relax, we're waiting for the authorities. All right, don't choke him out now, don't kill the guy.

ALL RIGHT. OKAY. HE'S GOT HIM.

YOU GOT HIM. HEY, RELAX. RELAX.

RELAX. Calm down. Relax.

Okay, so a good Samaritan came in. Stop. Stop.

Stop. Stop. Stop.

Stop. Stop. Relax.

Everyone relax. Friend. Relax.

Relax. No more stealing! No more stealing!

Come back. Lady, why you run? No more pickpocketing.

Pickpockets! Pickpockets! Hello, how are you?

Ah, ah, ah. Look. It's my proof.

What's up? Why don't we wait for the authorities? Pickpockets!

Miss, why you steal? Why you steal? Why you steal?

Why you steal? Pickpockets! She's a little slippery, eh?

Pickpockets! Hey, hey, come on now. Okay, just so she's identified.

No more stealing, okay? I'm going to show you some videos. Going to show you >> [laughter] >> Security, we got a pickpocket.

Can you help? You want to Okay, he doesn't want to get involved. Well, this is why the issue is bad as it is.

Are you retiring for the night? Yay! All right, the people stand with justice.

How long have you been on the grind? She got me in the face. Why are you hitting me in the face like that?

Why are you hitting me in the face? I'm not threatening you. He's not struggling.

OKAY, WELL, SHE HIT ME IN THE FACE THERE. SHE GOT ME PRETTY GOOD, but I'm a nice guy. Okay, well, why are you attacking me then?

Just because you're not good at it doesn't mean you weren't trying. Be gone. Pickpockets!

She's throwing some flying kicks, so I got to say. Pickpockets! Right here.

The red woman. Oh, it is. It is.

You're in one of them. She got me. She popped me.

We love you, too. How are you? How's it going, guys?

Have a great day. There's a mans. There they are.

There they both are. The couple, the pickpocket couple. The pickpocket couple bonded over their newly painted faces, sheer lack of shame, and love of theft.

The police were nowhere to be found. Get out of here. Get out of here, man.

Pickpockets! All right, these two right here, they're on the run. We're getting the middle finger.

She had those nice nails, now they're painted red. Pickpockets! you, Don't you ever spit a nasty loogie at me.

PICKPOCKETS! Did she get me? Oh, he got me with the loogie.

Disgusting. I might have AIDS now. While the locals joined in on our shaming ritual, the thieves began using trash as ammunition.

PICKPOCKETS! THESE TWO RIGHT HERE. PICKPOCKETS!

PICKPOCKETS! [screaming] PICKPOCKETS! Watch out.

Man. Uh-oh, don't do it. Disgusting.

She's using trash as her weaponry. With the police still nowhere in sight, Diego and Fred hopped on a bike to regroup with me after realizing I was with the two pickpockets. I sent a What did she throw?

A Red Bull, come on. I love Red Bull. Here's the modern-day Romeo and Juliet.

Pickpockets! What can he say? Ah, he keeps doing a little pump fake.

Gordita and Gordito. We have backup. Look, look, look.

Our knights in shining armor. LOOK, LOOK WHO ARRIVED. PICKPOCKETS!

They show their love for one another despite all the challenges. It is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet. No more stealing.

No more stealing. Get out of here. Don't do it.

Don't do it. Just wait for the police. Hey, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.

GET OFF THE PORCH. GET OFF THE PORCH. YEAH, STOP, STOP, STOP.

[screaming] YouTube won't let me show you the chaos that happens next, so go subscribe to tylerwalk. com for five bucks a month to watch the uncensored version of this video, get early access to all these videos, and watch bonus content I can't upload on YouTube. Wait for the police.

Stop, stop. Fred, stop, stop. Restrain.

Fred, stop. Restrain. Wait for the police.

All right, just stand back. Just wait. Let him go.

Let him go. The police are nowhere to be found. You got stabbed?

Yeah. Wow, um that was uh very violence. She got her clippers out and started stabbing Fred, and Fred did not hold back, to say the least.

Listen, I don't condone violence against women, but wow. After a fight broke out between my security and these thieves, the police finally took them into custody. So, we came back the next day, only for Diego to spot another pair of rats plotting a theft.

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Thanks again, Revolut. Now, let's hunt some pickpockets. Big transgender political rally.

We have people handing out smile stickers and tons of tourists. The bridge will be busy. This two here.

This two here. What's up, brother, here today, bro? Pickpockets.

Pickpockets. We have pickpockets? Yeah.

You got police here to speak to pickpockets today? No. Okay, we have some familiar faces.

Diego, you know these guys? I know them. It is busy today.

We're not even going to move. It's a perfect time for them to escape if they wanted to. Pickpockets!

Pickpockets! Are you going to stop stealing today? You promise?

Look at me in the eyes and promise. I'll leave you alone. You're going to stop stealing today?

Look at the camera and say it. You're going to stop stealing? And you're going to get a 9-to-5 at Tesco.

Like a good boy? Okay. Pickpockets!

These two right here. Tighten your purse. Clutch your belt.

Pickpockets! No, no denial even. No, I'm not even a pickpocket.

Just straight absorbing the damage. Right here. Ah, the white shoes.

The criminal identifier has been used. The red shoes means he's a thief. Where are they headed?

Pay your fare. Pay your fare. Okay, he paid.

He paid for once in his life. If he continues down this career path, he will pay very dearly, I suspect. Pickpockets!

[screaming] Right here, these two. Yep. PICKPOCKETS!

IT IS AVOIDABLE. It is avoidable. No more stealing, boys.

9-to-5 at Tesco, okay? You promise me? Okay, let's go.

Young man. You truly stoic, emotionless statue, which I I mean, he is the makings of a professional, I got to say. How many victims?

How many wallets? You know, any admission of guilt? You feel bad for doing this or what?

Now Now, the public's getting in on this. All right. Pickpockets!

With all due respect, there's additional seating back here if you want to move, people. He These are two thieves right here. I would really suggest two thieves right here.

Zip the the wallets. Tighten the purse. You don't want to be sitting next to these two fellows.

No one likes this. No one likes getting stolen from. Imagine being in London without your wallet.

You know what I mean? You don't know what I mean. He has no remorse.

He's a stoic, emotionless thief. How do you know who's who? I just know Daniel, no, like some faces.

They have like criminal face. Yeah. >> [laughter] >> Sometimes I just like cross one person, I say, "Oh, it's not like for me suspicious, you know, the way that they do the things like I just language.

Body language, this kind of Do we have an epidemic of pregnant women out here, too? A lot of different skins, you know. What's the most recent scheme you've noticed?

Usually the the gypsies ones, like Romanians, Bulgarians ones. What do they typically steal? Wallets, phones?

Whatever they have the opportunity, valuable things, you know, they steal. But usually like luggage, quality, mobile, computer. And has anyone ever tried to stab, shoot, or punch you?

Uh punches sometimes like mainly when you go for for a man, you know. Natural they would be more violent. Sure.

They try defend themself. And I see your eyes darting back and forth. What are you looking for right now?

Uh mainly here, you know, it's a little bit crowd. Start to be more busy, you know. The parade going to finish it soon.

And I noticed you were wearing Can I show? Or is that a secret? talk to anybody that I use this.

Okay, so you have some stab-proof vest on. Yeah. Are things that It's happen.

It's a precautionary? Precautionary. Someone tried to stab you?

No, no, no. No? Never.

How many informants like him do you have on the streets? I have like a lot, you know. People that work in shops, securities, taxi drivers, delivery riders.

Everyone drop message all day. They text Wow. Now he's a friendly guy.

Just thanking him for the work he does. He really is a real life superhero. Diego, you're saying bags like that are perfect Yeah.

So pickpockets will take photos of bags on the ground like that and say like hey, here's an easy lick. Yeah. Okay, don't leave your bags on the ground like that.

And after a long day of patrolling known pickpocket hotspots, Diego got another tip from his pickpocket hotline. All right. You got a tip?

Yeah. This guy. The white beret.

What did he do? What did he do? He just targeting people.

I think the guys know him. All right, Diego's found a guy. We got a lead.

We're going to chase the lead. See where it ends. Let's go.

We found some some fellows. Who sent you the lead? The position.

Uh a friend of mine. He works on the street, you know. He's definitely a pickpocket.

A thief? Yeah. Chase our guy.

All right. Diego's sniffing the trail right now. He sees something.

We're on the move. Want to be discreet, but we're focused. We're locked in.

See if we get it. He's on the trail. He's on the trail.

We got to move with intention. Diego's feeling it. He's feeling it.

He's coming out. He's coming out. He's coming out.

Lock it. Lock it. He's coming out.

Okay. All right. With the white cap.

He's leaving. Are we sure it's him? No, no, no.

I mean let let him take action. For the camera. For the camera.

There you got him. You got him. Snap a little shot.

Can we see him? Do you know this guy's face? Yeah.

I mean See if he's familiar. Uh not not familiar, but the my spotter spotted him, you know. Maybe he going to get like some restaurants, you know.

Or he just going to smoke. He just going to smoke, you know. I don't know.

He get inside of Primark. He going to steal bags. He going to steal bags.

We have a a thief inside. We're going to trace him, okay? Okay, no problem.

>> Excuse me. Let him grab. Once we spot him grab some bags, we will He was inside this a Primark.

He grabbed a trolley and then I don't know if he spotted us or something like that, but he gave up of the trolley. I think he's running out now. All right.

Our guy left behind his cart, left the store, was fake shopping. He he got spooked. Down there.

Down there. Down there. The thief was onto us and began his escape towards the tube.

>> [music] >> Huh? What? What?

Talking to me? Why are you talking to me? Why are you talking to me?

Huh? Looking for Looking for me? What are you talking about?

You wait for me. Don't touch. Don't touch the camera.

Don't touch it. Excuse me? Why are you talking to me like that?

Back up. Back up. Back up.

Back up a little bit. Back up. Back up.

Get the Back. Don't play these games. Don't play these games.

I'm going to turn you over to one of my friends. Hey, hey, stop. Stop.

Stop. Stop. Stop.

No. I told you to Thank you. Thank you.

Get out of here. Get out of here. What are you doing?

Why are you touching our stuff? Back up. I didn't touch you.

Why are you You smacked our camera. You keep going. You'll notice I haven't even called this guy pickpocket once.

Yet he's denied being one multiple times. Maybe he does have a conscience. I was trailing this guy just to see where he's headed.

He goes, "Why are you following me? " Then things got handsy. I think the police should be called.

I never said that. Stand back. Probably.

Probably. But I never said anything. You should.

You're good? Let's shake on it then. You're not going to be a thief anymore?

Come over here. Come on. Move on.

Move on. Are you going to go on the subway or what? Just keep going.

Just get on your subway. Don't be a vagabond. Don't be a thug.

Understand? I understand you hit my property and you need to stop. No one said that.

You probably are, but no one said that. I don't I never said you were. Tell me about that guy.

We know him from the street. He's one of your characters? Yeah.

We are following him. Just waiting for him like stealing property. I never him met met him before.

Like my friends have spotted him in I see. So your friends who also on the lookout, they know his face. So what he got most offended by was not the punch in the face, but when he got called pickpocket afterwards.

What were the biggest things you looked for there? Just his overall body language, how he's casing people out. What did you see?

Yeah. As we saw them before, he like looking to people like who looking to pockets, mobile at hand. Once the people put the mobile in the pocket, he goes for the mobile.

He get inside of the stores. He get the trolley. He go for bags when the people are changing or something like that.

They put the bags in the trolley like then run away. And only a couple hours later, another thief was spotted on Diego's radar. Black beret.

Blue backpack, okay. Yeah, I'm just going to watch him from outside. Yeah, we see him, right?

He's definitely in that store. He was um in the restaurant. He was bumping into the chicks and whatnot, too.

Those those girls in there, they were all weirded out. He was moving fishy. Come over here, though.

Come over here. Come over You see him? Yeah, I can see him.

Just look at me, friend. No, he can't see. He's He's got his back to him.

Where did he go? Oh, there he is. After following this rat for about an hour, it was clear he knew we were onto him.

So we decided to call it a night and go to bed, only for him to get arrested immediately after with several stolen wallets in his possession. And with Diego's last thief apprehended, we decided it was time to finish what we started and go back to the Westminster Bridge to see if the same scammer gang we met 2 days ago was dumb enough to show up again. See these guys?

They're setting up shop. These guys are playing the game. Should we paint them red?

100%. One last painting? One more.

Excuse me. Taxi. We're about to storm the cup and ball scammers on the Westminster Bridge and turn them [music] red.

I'm nervous. Are you nervous? Slightly.

Little bit. Yeah, I'm like kind of amped up. I don't know why.

Right here. Right here. >> [laughter] >> Ready?

Thank you. How do I unlock it? >> [music] >> SCAMMERS.

SCAMMERS. SCAMMERS. [screaming] GET OUT OF HERE.

YOU. YOU. SCAMMERS.

SCAMMERS. SCAMMERS. SCAMMERS.

What's going on? What's he shooting? Scammers, you.

Yes, you. Ah, he brought his own. He got me.