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Call me naive... (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Eminence
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Used to be the case. Chips have gone high tech and it is very difficult to get away with it these days. Plus with all the video surveillance, they will track you down.
El Floppo
Footballguy
first off, this is all bs. that's what they want you to think.
there has never been an easier time to do this... just needs somebody with the gumption and wherewithal to do it.
Apple Jack
Footballguy
mquinnjr
Footballguy
TheAristocrat
Footballguy
I was going to post something else and then Super Bon Bon came on.
Move aside,
and let the man go through.
Let the man go through.
Go for it, Em. There's almost no risk here just like your stock picks.
Move aside,
and let the man go through.
Let the man go through.
Go for it, Em. There's almost no risk here just like your stock picks.
If you’re thinking of robbing a Las Vegas casino, and you’re not George Clooney, I have a word of advice: give up now. As Anthony Carleo recently found out, even if you leave the casino in one piece, the chips you stole are going to be worthless long before you make your get away. The 29 year old suspect is accused of robbing the Bellagio on December 14th of 2010, stealing chips whose face value totaled around $1.5 million dollars. Their real value, however, was zero. Thanks to RFID tags embedded inside them, the chips with denominations of $100 to $25,000 could be immediately deactivated rendering them unredeemable for cash value. Watch CCTV footage from the December 14th robbery in the video clip below, followed by the recent press conference from the Las Vegas Police concerning Carleo’s arrest. Stealing worthless chips and then getting caught trying to sell them to undercover officers? Danny Ocean this guy is not.
According to comments made to Minyanville by CHIPCO International, the casino chips used by Bellagio are typical of the industry. Highly specialized markings already make them hard to counterfeit, but embedded RFID tags allow casinos to track their every movement. If a chip is stolen, its ID can be associated with the theft in casino databases, preventing it from being redeemed for cash. Each high tech chip only costs about $2.50 to make, and they ensure that very little theft can succeed.
Actually, they do much more than that. RFID chips are a form of security, but they are also an amazingly precise way of measuring activity in the casino. The Bellagio and its competitors can track how much each table is making or losing, even verifying that dealers are handling each transaction correctly. They can log how much you spend, where you spend it, and use that information to keep you in the game longer with well timed drinks and services catered to your activity. If you’re using high-rolling chips you can almost guarantee that a casino knows what you’re up to. Turns out Big Brother is alive and well, playing craps in Las Vegas.
According to comments made to Minyanville by CHIPCO International, the casino chips used by Bellagio are typical of the industry. Highly specialized markings already make them hard to counterfeit, but embedded RFID tags allow casinos to track their every movement. If a chip is stolen, its ID can be associated with the theft in casino databases, preventing it from being redeemed for cash. Each high tech chip only costs about $2.50 to make, and they ensure that very little theft can succeed.
Actually, they do much more than that. RFID chips are a form of security, but they are also an amazingly precise way of measuring activity in the casino. The Bellagio and its competitors can track how much each table is making or losing, even verifying that dealers are handling each transaction correctly. They can log how much you spend, where you spend it, and use that information to keep you in the game longer with well timed drinks and services catered to your activity. If you’re using high-rolling chips you can almost guarantee that a casino knows what you’re up to. Turns out Big Brother is alive and well, playing craps in Las Vegas.
grateful zed
Footballguy
johnnycakes
Footballguy
$2.50 per chip?
Oink Oink the Pig
Footballguy
HARD DELETE!!!! HARD DELETE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sports_fan
Footballguy
actually all you have to do is get a bunch of $1 chips and turn them into $100 or $1000. you really only need a sharpie to do it
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
TenTimes
Backhoe Operator
ClownCausedChaos2
Footballguy
Hilts
Footballguy
Wash $1 bills and print $100s on 'em. Pretty easy.Finally some legitimately good advice
Easier still is finding an ATM service manual online, going into a convenience store with an off-brand, independent ATM, and using the default password, which is rarely changed by the owner, to tell the machine to empty the cash tray, or, re-program it so it thinks it's full of $1 bills instead of $20s. So when you go to withdraw $100 from an untraceable pre-paid debit card, it spits out 100 bills instead of just 5. All 20s, of course, but the machine doesn't know that. Walk out with $2K and go to the next 7-11. Rinse. Repeat.
Em needs to stop wasting time with mere 20% returns on his stock picks and go for the real money.
Fennis
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Courtjester
The Town Drunk
I think this a great idea for a young go-getter like Em.
What could go wrong?
What could go wrong?
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
You're not naive. You're stupid.
Gene Sackman
Footballguy
Why are you always trying to ruin people's dreams. You are just a jerk man.
Peyton Marino
Footballguy
bruh.
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
Premier
Footballguy
fatness
Footballguy
Gene Sackman
Footballguy
timschochet
Footballguy
jon is being a panic monger here, just like in the Ebola thread.
You can't pay attention to this fear talk, Eminence. jon mx is cringing under his bed right now. He's scared to try anything. You're a lot more of a man than he is. You can do this.
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
####, Tim
Ditkaless Wonders
Footballguy
If you are going to begin a career as a counterfeiter I suggest you start with Canadian money. Hell it all looks like fakes anyhow. Like some bad cartoon, hand drawn in crayons grasped in the palsied feet of 90 year old hillbillies that consumed too much mercury with their moonshine over the years. Start easy and work your way up. After you master Canadian money you can try to forge McDonald Monopoly coupons. Be careful though. If you #### around in McDonaldland Officer Big Mac will mess up your ####.
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Das Boot
Footballguy
ghostguy123
Footballguy
Huh. The most original idea in history. Leave it to Em.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
The way to do this would be to counterfeit them and then go to the airport and sell them off for 50% off their value.
"I forgot to cash these in and I'm heading out on the 574 to home in Newark. I'll sell them to you at a discount just so I don't have to deal with them."
"I forgot to cash these in and I'm heading out on the 574 to home in Newark. I'll sell them to you at a discount just so I don't have to deal with them."
ghostguy123
Footballguy
I think its a better and easier idea to just walk around waiting for some drunk wimpy idiot to hit big on roulette or something, and follow him to his room and just rob him.
I have had this opportunity at least 2-3 times every casino trip I have ever had. Easy to rob, and too drunk to properly tell the police what happened.
I have had this opportunity at least 2-3 times every casino trip I have ever had. Easy to rob, and too drunk to properly tell the police what happened.
ghostguy123
Footballguy
Or just get a job. All the time and energy spent doing this won't be worth how much you will actually make before being caught, and you would likely make more from some remedial job anyway.
Go mow lawns. Sounds more up your alley.
Go mow lawns. Sounds more up your alley.
timschochet
Footballguy
ghostguy123
Footballguy
Walmart sells poker chips. Problem solved
