Monday five men including three players Italians and two casino employees were arrested last October 10, caught in flagrante delicto of scam. With their scam, they won nearly $93,000 (during several sessions) at the casino Les Princes de Cannes.
How were they? Easy.
They scored a game of 52 cards in invisible ink. Each King and each ACE was marked with a specific sign. The cross indicated the King and the bar, ACE.
The players had the help of an employee of the casino who was their friend. It was he who introduced the card game in the casino, with the permission of his bosses that there have seen that of fire.
To recognize cards, they wore infrared contact lenses to read invisible ink. In a brief session, they won $ 30,000, enough to start making stress the patron of the casino.
This clever process could go unnoticed if our crooks had not been too greedy. Spotted for the first time to have won €40,000, they then subject to an inquiry and its immediately arrested when they reappear at a table of Stud poker of the same casino, where they were winning more than 20 €000.
Their greed costs them today their freedom since the five men are currently in jail thinking about their crime.
The casino will in the future take a much more sophisticated method to avoid this type of fraud that is well known in the United States. In the future, special lamps will be used to inspect the cards before being allowed.
It should be noted that in 2004, a team of fraudsters had succeeded to win € 100,000 in thirty-two french casinos using a mini camera hidden in a round which allowed to film the croupier.
If you are tempted by such scam, you first say that investment is large and that the punishment will be prison. Indeed, the magic paint bottle sold to black on average 100,000 euros and the pair of lenses several thousands of euros. Before repaying your investment, you may already be in prison.
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