Slot machine cheats revealed by C.S.&S.S. by John Connolly
John Connolly (Casino Protection). KYC, Physiognomist
Owner/Partner @ Finger | Gaming Board for Great Britain Manager's Certificate, Casino House Protection.
Who are we? Who are the members of C.S. & S.S. ? The Casino Surveillance and Security Society is 12 years old and our members are claiming the success of the capture and arrest and incarceration of slot machine cheats.
Slot machine cheating is the foremost form of cheating today in the casino industry. Let us also call it electronic gaming (really if we are honest it's electronic gambling) let's call a spade a spade because gaming belongs to the Xbox and Nintendo world.
So we the people who are reading this article are in the Gambling Industry, today under threat not only from cheats but from online gambling.
"Online gambling is a license to print money, people play in the comfort of their own homes using their credit cards or bank cards, often going into debt, spending tomorrows money before they earn it, creating or nurturing pathological gamblers". (Not gamers)
So the online gambling industry gets fined every now and then, so what, they are making so much money your eyes can pop out, so the odd fine here and there doesn't matter.
Now that Sheldon Adelson has passed who will pick up the banner, nobody, because "if you can't beat them join them" and that's what land-based casinos are doing. In spite of the threat that eventually it could lead to the banning of gambling all together in certain jurisdictions. It starts with the banning of the use of bank cards which also affects "bricks and mortar" casinos and what's next?
Now we have digressed because I want to return to the business of cheating electronic games in casinos, which for the knowledgable and clever technically gifted criminals is becoming more and more prevalent.
C.S. & S.S. is almost fighting a lone crusade against these cheats, our members believe that we, I say we because I am an administrator of that platform, were responsible for the discovery and capture of the Russian slot machine hackers first discovered in the USA in St.Louis, Missouri and later captured in California.
Some of these images first posted in our society on 7 Jul 2011, 14:24:14.
As names and images had been circulating in our society for some time and were being disseminated across the USA.
Let us return to a more recent problem of the Colombian/Peruvian slot machine stacker stealers or robbers, who were last year discovered and finally arrested in South East Asia. One of their members as we have seen is serving a twelve-year harsh sentence in Vietnam while others of the OCG (organised criminal gang) were taken into custody in Spain by Interpol following their escape from Korea. Although one Chinese member of that OCG thought to be the ring-leader is continually escaping law enforcement.
Captured in the time of Covid. First in Cambodia and then extradited back to Vietnam, now serving a 12 (twelve) year sentence but hey look at the positives, he will be fluent in the Vietnamese language when he is finally released.
We in C.S.& S.S. also believe we have been instrumental in their apprehension since our members in the Far East were following and well aware of their identities and facial images posted in our society.
These criminals robbed casinos all over Europe from 2017 and hit all four casinos one by one across Northern Italy, then Germany, Switzerland and many other countries, resulting in first-class facial images being grabbed of them and circulating throughout our Global Society.
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Guest Service Performance Development Specialist @ Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort
3 年Might they use bluetooth to connect to the machine then back to the server or app perhaps? Need more details as technology grows faster then internal regulations.
Owner/Partner @ Finger | Gaming Board for Great Britain Manager's Certificate, Casino House Protection.
3 年https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/news-action-and-statistics/news/2020/Gambling-on-credit-cards-to-be-banned-from-April-2020.aspx This is just the beginning and other gambling commissions will follow their lead, this not only applies to online gambling but land-based also. The commission giveth and the Commission taketh away.
Owner/Partner @ Finger | Gaming Board for Great Britain Manager's Certificate, Casino House Protection.
3 年Alan, "I would call it “reverse engineering and vulnerability exploration”. that is quite a mouthful when it is normal to use one-word terminology or link two words together "Facebook". Remember the pen is mightier than the sword but we don't want to run out from ink, do we. (The?World Game Protection Conference?is taking place this February 21st-23rd in Las Vegas. ... sophisticated “hack” where a criminal organization reverse engineered?slot machine's?random number generator (RNG) in order?). However you say there is a danger in using the word "hacking", do you mean the danger is it will not hold up in court?
Owner/Partner @ Finger | Gaming Board for Great Britain Manager's Certificate, Casino House Protection.
3 年Alan, "does not constitute “hacking”. How would you term it then?
Head of Technical Compliance @ Easygo. Opinions expressed are my own and not the views of my employer.
3 年I am familiar with how the group cheat, but is reverse engineering a machine to determine where the machine is in its pRNG cycle, sending information back to a server and reviving max bet instructions does not constitute “hacking”.