Hot Cons How-Tos
How To: Hack a sealed envelope
This tutorial video will teach you how to hack a sealed envelope to open it and re-seal it perfectly. This is great for anyone looking to snoop through someone else's mail. But that is illegal, of course.
How To: Pick a Masterlock 130
Here is tutorial lock picking video on how to open a lock without key. The lock opened in this video is a Master lock nr 130, The tools used to pick this lock are a tension wrench and a finger.
How To: Make a fake UFO picture
This how-to video shows how to make your very own realistic UFO encounter. Learn how to make your own fake UFO picture and trick your friends. This can be a funny prank, if any of your friends think aliens exist.
How To: Siphon gas from a newer vehicles tank
This how-to video shows a simple setup to drain the tank from a 1998 Beetle without taking out the fuel pump. Do it to any car that has a siphon block.
How To: Add LED lights to avoid speed detection while driving
Tired of getting speeding tickets? Not prepared to start driving by the letter of the law? Well, this instructional video shows a way to con the speeding radar. Regular LED lights can be modified with infrared LED bulbs and will avoid speed detection by the police. Learn how to stop getting speeding tickets and avoid police radar detection by adding LED lights by watching this how-to con video.
How To: Crack a number-based combination lock
Have a number based combination lock but you have forgotten to combination? This how-to video will show you how to crack your number based combination lock in only 8 seconds. Follow along with the steps in this video tutorial and break into that pesky lock.
How To: Make a secret container safe with a peanut butter jar
Turn a household item into an awesome hiding spot in just minutes! This video tutorial will show you how easy it is to make a peanut butter safe. Just make a hole in peanut butter jar, put a plastic cup on in, and trim the cut neatly. That's it. Follow the instructions in this how-to video, put your valuables inside, tighten the lid, and nobody will ever find them, unless of course, they are hungry for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
How To: Hack a cell phone to make free phone calls
Want to control a friend's cell phone remotely and make "free" calls from it? In this hack how-to video, you'll learn how to hack Bluetooth-enabled cell phones with your Sony Ericsson or Nokia phone and the Super Bluetooth Hack—or "BT Info"—, a free program easily found through Google. Once installed, Super Bluetooth Hack will enable you to control your friends' cell phones remotely.
How To: Hack an elevator to go directly to your floor
Going up? This video will teach you how to hack an elevator, making it go directly to the desired floor without stopping. If you're ever in a hurry or, heaven forbid, a genuine emergency and need to get to the bottom or top floor quickly, you'll be very happy you watched this how-to video. Learn how to enable the "express mode" in most any modern elevator with this great pushbutton hack!
How To: Find the numbers to open a combination pad
Forgot or lost the combination to a suitcase? Instead of prying open or picking the lock of a basic combination pad, find the numbers and recover the combination without ruining the lock with the trick tip in this instructional video. Don't suffer from a bad memory ever again, or for the more devious minded, break into that briefcase you've been eying. Learn how to recover the combination of a suitcase by watching this how-to pull a con video tutorial.
How To: Make a ghost appear on your cell phone
Want to scare your friends with some paranormal activity? Learn how to make this illusion with through your cell phone camera and make ghosts appear with the help of this how-to video. This should convince your friends ghosts exist. All you need is your camera phone and a piece of clear plastic with a black smudge on it. Watch this instructional video and learn how to make a fake ghost appear on your cell phone.
How To: Cheat when you shuffle cards
Explanation for an easy card shuffling. Learn to control the cards anyway you like! This can help you win at any poker game.
How To: Unlock Car Doors with a Punctured Tennis Ball (Faux-To?)
Many have tried to prove (or disprove) that tennis ball lock picking really works, but it still seems up for debate. Mythbusters have supposedly debunked this technique (watch the video). Someone over at the Auto Blog also has tested this car lock method with failed results (watch the video).
How To: Pick handcuff locks
Learn how you can open handcuffs using common items such as paper clips and more. This can come in handy for those late nights at bars.
How To: Get free pizza takeaway
This video shows how to get free pizza. It is very easy to do, and works best with smaller pizza companies.
How To: Debunk the free candy cheat myth
This video clip shows you how you cannot fool any candy machine and debunks the mythical paper hacks in detail. Some say it works, some say it doesn't. Well, check out this video tutorial and decide for yourself what believe. It might just be easier to steal candy from a baby.
How To: Pinch your bet in Blackjack
Learn how to perform this easy cheat in Blackjack, "pinching the bet."
How To: Win money on a losing dog race ticket
In this gambling con video, con man Derren Brown helps a guy win money on a losing dog racing ticket twice. If you look and listen carefully, you will be able to work out how exactly this works, and you will be winning money on losing dog track tickets in no time. Win money on a losing dog race ticket - Part 1 of 2.
How To: Get All the Change Out of Vending Machine
This instructional video will show you how to get all of the change out of a vending machine! Who needs Coke or Pepsi when you can have coins? Then, you can get all of the soda you want out of that vending machine.
How To: Pick a lock with an electric shaver
Watch this video to learn how to pick a trie circle lock with a woman's electric shaver. This lock pick technique only takes seconds.
How To: Outwit carnies at carnival games
Tired of spending $20 at the carnival to get a teddy bear worth $2.99? Here’s how to beat the carnies at their own games.
How To: Open a combination padlock
How to figure out what the combination of a lock is with the use of a screwdriver to see the pin next to the spin wheel. Open a combination padlock.
How To: Cheat on a test or exam, like a professional
Learn how to make the coolest and most professional cheat sheet ever! Warning -- this video is for educational purposes only. We are not responsible for any damage caused by cheating at school. You take the responsibility, because it was you who didn't study, right?
How To: Cheat on a written test
This video is for educational purposes only! Cheating is bad and it is not recommended. If you get caught, you support the consequences! If you "steal" want to cheat (ha ha, get it?), you can at least see a good way to do it.
How To: Make a secret container safe out of a car wax bottle
Make a secret container safe from a bottle of car wax and other house hold tools.
How To: Hack a Soda Machine to Get a Drink and a Refund
You'd like to treat your friend to a drink from the vending machine, but you only have enough cash for one soda. What do you do?
How To: Pick a lock with a Swiss Army tweezer and safety pin
This video teaches you how to pick a lock using only a tweezer from a swiss army knife and a safety pin. Only use this information for proving that you're cooler than your other friends.
How To: Pick a Master Lock #175 with a paper clip
Even though I am not the best locksmith in the world, the four-digit #175 model Master Lock is so easy to pick that all the hardened steel in the world isn't going to protect your belongings.
How To: Hack an elevator so it goes directly to your floor
This video shows you how to make an elevator go directly to your floor while skipping all other floors.
How To: Make an elevator skip floors to go to your floor
Here is a video that teaches you how to make an elevator skip floors and go to your floor first, just by holding down the close door button, and the button to your floor.
How To: Make an elevator go to your floor first
This video shows you a trick you can use in an elevator to avoid stopping at other floors.
How To: Open a keylock with two shims
Make two shims and then you can use them to pick this padlock.
How To: Make an electric shaver lockpick
Shows how almost any electric shaver can be make into an automatic lockpick.
How To: Listen to music in class
Listen to tunes instead of lectures with this handy tip. Listen to music in class.
How To: Break a brick with your bare hands
A trick so that you can break bricks with your bare hands. Break a brick with your bare hands.
How To: Follow someone
This video presents a sneaky guide to following someone down the street without them noticing. Learn how to follow someone with our simple tips on disguises and techniques. Follow someone.
How To: Make a book with a secret compartment
Make Magazine teaches you how to make a book that can hide things in this video!
How To: Con people with change racing
Learn how money and number tricks are manipulated by a magician pro - the art of change racing.
How To: Pick a Fortress 40mm lock
This video shows you how to pick a Fortress 40mm lock. You have to actually pick the lock because you can't bypass it.
How To: Cheat on a test with a water bottle
Check out this conning how-to video of the classic water bottle cheat sheet. As an homage to some of our favorite tricks, here's an old one that has been around for ages but some of you may not be aware of. In this video we show you how to utilize modern technology to always have your notes in plain view. We will do this by taking a common object that no one will think twice about and altering it to fit our needs. Watch this video tutorial and learn how easy it is to con your teachers into th...