The 5 most famous casino scammers in history

Between 1995 and 2000, the Rosselli brothers stole almost $37 million without spending anything. With a hacker, they targeted people with valid credit cards and opened player accounts in their names. They made transfers of 50,000 dollars in each account, with the funds of these people. Gaining the trust of the casinos, it was easy for them to request large credits.

In the end, they emptied the accounts of their victims before disappearing into the wild. The worst part is that the hit casinos sued the victims whose identities were stolen.

The contact lens scam

This scam was set up in 2011 by an Italian and three Frenchmen; they managed to steal millions of dollars from land-based casinos in Cannes (France). While playing Stud Poker, they marked the cards with an ultraviolet ink that was undetectable to the naked eye. Later, the crooks came back to play, equipped with special lenses to spot the marked cards.

Their strategy would have worked longer if they hadn't become a little too greedy. The casinos quickly understood the scam, and it was from that moment that they equipped their cameras with ultraviolet sensors.

The Cutter Gang: the mini camera

The Cutter Gang is famous in the history of land-based casinos. Their scam was based on Baccarat. They used a mini camera hidden in the sleeve of the suit. They cut the cards slowly in order to be able to record the maximum amount of information. Then, one of them left the table and gave way to another who had previously studied all the information collected.

With this trick, the gang extracted $1 million in 2011 from a casino.

Pai Gow John

Pai Gow John traveled the United States in search of “resellers” to join his team. With nearly 40 people, he stole nearly $7 million between 2002 and 2007.

On the Baccarat and Blackjack tables, the dealer pretended to shuffle the cards. Another member of the gang (on the same table) lit a cigarette to distract the players, and the other member communicated instructions via a microphone in his sleeve. The 3rd member placed bets according to the instructions received, and the symbols were determined by the positions of the cigarette.

It took a careful analysis of the surveillance cameras to detect the scam and get the gang arrested.

Radio roulette ball

This scam took place in the early 1970s. A man recruited his brother and the latter's partner for the maneuver. He designed a mechanism consisting of a transmitter and a radio receiver in zero gravity. This mechanism triggered the fall of the ball from the casino roulette in a precise number with astonishing precision.

When the dealer engaged the receiving ball, his sister-in-law held the receiver, but stood on the next table. The brother, on the other hand, placed the bets. They were able to steal more than a million dollars from a casino before they were arrested.