Most people know what it means when someone is described as a conman. It’s short for confidence man: what we would know today as a scammer. People who use deceit, cleverness and lies for their own ends. The scam is usually about greed and is a way of defrauding someone to get their money. Although we associate scams today with phones and modern technology they have been around for hundreds of years. Let's travel back in time to the Middle Ages and hear about some of those swindlers. There we will meet a fake cursed prince, dodgy government inspectors and some naughty bakers.