Scam City is a SCAM!!!

After seeing an episode made in my home town of Amsterdam, I was surprised to see that this show is a complete fake. I live about 50 meters away from the Red Light District, and we are very familiar with the people (both good and bad) that hang around in our neighborhood. From drugsdealers to ordinary people, we know almost all of them.
But what Scam City shows in the episode of Amsterdam turned out to be completely fake! I know there's crime in Amsterdam, sure enough, which capital doesn't have it? But the stuff they showed on this show where not just staged, they where also very much over-the-top fake and gave a completely false idea about what really goes on.

The first scammer, a woman who picks Conor's wallet in the tram, was way to obvious and big in her movement to be stealing anything at all. I travel daily with the same tram line, and I've never been stolen in a tram. For sure it happens, but not like how this woman was doing it.

Than we get to a scammer that bumps into Conor in the Red Light District area of Amsterdam, pulling off a scam with breaking a bottle of whiskey. I know all they crazy guys that would do that kind of stuff in that area, but I've never seen this guy before. So either he is all new here, and never showed up afterwards, or he's an actor.

Than we have a scammer pretending to be a police officer undercover, actually a scammer, who robs Conor of his wallet in an unfriendly way. Strangely enough I've never seen the guy before (even though I would surely know him since it's 5 minutes away from my house). Plus, scammers would never do such a thing, since cops really are undercover in that area, and the chance of getting caught, or even worse for the scammer, pulling the scam on a cop is extremely big.

Another scammer is actually a drugsdealer. Now I know some guys that sell drugs on the streets. There are two things they never do. Firstly, they never sell, or pretend to sell heroine, simply because it's not good to fake, and tourists generally aren't hardcore drug users, they just want a kick. So they only sell, or pretend to sell, XTC and coke, which could often turn out to be just asprine, viagra (yes, and than guys think the XTC was really good, because it made their dick hard, I've heard it many times already), or plain simple flower.
And the second thing a drugdealer would never do, is they would never talk about the fact that they fake the drugs, only to people they know, and not to someone they just met on the street. Especially not, since (again) it could be a cop undercover, and the risk is just to high for that.

But the most fake scammer must have been the one at central station. Conor got stolen his walltet, and afterwards the guy called and (after some thinking apparently) decided to give Conor his home adress(!) for a cup of tea(!). There we could see the scammer, talking about how he made in the weekends 500-1000 euro's in a weekend (very well possible), yet he lives in a house that looks like my grandmother lived in it, including cute flowers in the background and the most *beep* place I've ever seen in Amsterdam.
This was so obviously fake, since real scammers would never do this, in fear of being caught by the police, and they certainly would live not like this guy would, since scammers love spending money as much as they love stealing it (yeah, I know some real life scammers in Amsterdam and how their lifestyle is).

And luckily this didn't go unnoticed by city hall nor the Dutch cop interviewed in this episode. The Dutch cop already admitted that what this episode showed, was not the reality (see the video here: http://youtu.be/rAoBoAsexQM), and also the mayor of Amsterdam came out after the police department in Amsterdam did some research, and revealed that Scam City is a scam on itself.

But my question is: Was this show supposed to be a mockumentary, or at least a staged documentary to inform people about real life events and scam techniques (in which case they failed in Amsterdam)? Or was this show meant to be real, and Conor hoped nobody would ever find out that it was staged (in which case he also failed, although time will tell)?