Siehe auch: hustle - #10
Siehe auch: American Hustle - #4
Siehe auch: hustle some doe [dough]
Siehe auch: hustle to survive - #5

Oxf. Amer. Dict. & Thes.:
hustle - (v) ... 2 (hustle someone into): pressure someone into doing something without time for consideration. 3 [informal]: obtain something dishonestly or by aggressive methods. 4 [informal]: work as a prostitute.

AHD 5:
hustle - (v) ... 3. To act aggressively, esp. in business dealings. 4. [Slang] To sell or get by questionable or aggressive methods.

inspired by the FBI ABSCAM operation of the late 1970s and early 1980s ... two con artists ... are forced by an FBI agent ... to set up an elaborate sting operation on corrupt politicians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Hustle

1st Place: Fake Till
in this scam the team put their own till in a department store and try to walk straight out with all the takings
http://www.bbc.co.uk/realhustle/besthustles/

The BBC has been told never to repeat a number of episodes of The Real Hustle, following an internal investigation into allegations that paid extras were hired
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/jun/02/...

Internet examples:
• The best of the factual entertainment series about scams and cons focusing on how easy it is to be scammed and conned in everyday life.
(The Real Hustle, BBC)
• Selling bootleg goods, playing the numbers, squatting rent-free, scamming tourists with bogus stories, selling knockoffs on Canal Street, and crafting Ponzi schemes--this vivid account of hustling in New York City explores the sociological reasons why con artists play the game
(review of The Con Men: Hustling in New York City)
• Scams, Swindles, Cons and Hustles. Get Money!
I was taught this scam in the 90's and it still works at most department stores
• Man Accused of Scamming Women He Met Online Video - ABC News
A 52[-] year[-]old Los Angeles man has been charged with hustling at least eight women he met online, one for 300,000.
• Man Arrested for Hustling Stores with Soggy Bread Scam | The ...
A man in Tokyo has been arrested for scamming stores out of thousands of dollars by complaining about soggy bread.
• But scamming and hustling tourists is bad for New York
• What are some fast ways to hustle, scam or get money in anyway besides having a job?

This came up in a thread today.

Some BE speakers have professed puzzlement, but given that the BBC itself seems to have hosted a series on this very topic, I'm not sure it still needs to be marked AE, though apparently that's where it originated.

As usual, I have no opinion about the German side; I just tried to start with things that seemed generally related, but I have no idea how these compare to Masche, Betrug, Trick, anything else similar.