Racket Squad

- Season 1

(1951)

A conman and woman use young kids to cash welfare and government checks stolen from mailboxes. The children then attempt to cash the checks for their parents at groceries and pharmacies. They tell heartbreaking stories to the store owners. If asked for proof, they give the phone numbers of the conartists as their parents.

The danger of buying used cars that are not safe. In the series they are known as "dogs". It starts with a couple who are getting married and buy a used car. They are warned by a mechanic not to buy the car but the salesman talked them into the car. The couple end up in an accident. The husband is injured. A member of Racket Squad interviews the couple and asks why they did not get auto insurance. The couple was crossing state lines and didn't feel they needed insurance until they got to their new home. The mechanic visits the couple in Hospital and confesses that the...

The dangers of confidence men known as "bunko men", scammers and tricksters. A 1951 version of "The Sting".

Two innocent-looking country girls are actually a clever pair of con artists who stage thefts of their own goods in order to extort money from hotels.

A grief-stricken father requests help from Captain Braddock when he becomes convinced that a medium the old man used to contact his recently deceased daughter caused him to be conned out of a valuable diamond necklace.

A girl comes to the home of the parents of a college student and asks them to give her the money she needs to free her father from prison in Mexico. She is actually working for a Spanish racketeer and has been carefully primed in what she should say to them, in a racket that is as old as civilisation itself but is now more often seen online.

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A charming stranger acquaints himself with a wealthy family. After a while he reveals to them that instead of gas his car is running on a mixture of water and a special pellet. As this is much cheaper than gas, the oil companies threatened him, he says, when he tried to put this new product on the market. The wealthy family get excited by the prospect of gaining big profits from producing and selling the miraculous pellet. They give him all their money to secure the rights for it.