KING ROULETTE SCAM

With this second article from my guest writer, Beyers Rautenbach, we look at another significant slot machine scam which had hit all our casinos pretty hard and was proving to be a mystery. When we heard about this scam, we all took turns watching the area in question hoping to catch the scammers in action, so to speak. Beyers and I were on shift at the time, and because Beyers is a very motivated and self driven person, he was hunting for evidence that would catch these slot cheats. Anyway, here is his account of what went down.


King Roulette

We received information that some guys were conducting fraudulent activities on the King Roulette machines; however we were not aware of what they were actually doing. I started working a Graveyard shift in the camera room and because we were short staffed that night I took over the slots console, after relieving the person working on the said console I began with the normal duties such as target reports/ bill dispute capturing and so on.
It was not long after that when I noticed 2 suspicious black males arrive at the said bank of machines and this I saw because I left a camera view up on my monitor to monitor those machines, the 2 suspects sat next too each other and began to play normal. The one suspect was seen trying to lift the cover that covers the monitor but at that time I did not think much of that, it was only about an hour later that I could pay special attention to them because the gaming area was not so busy.

I took control of a PTZ when I saw them playing there and from that time it could be seen that every now and then the 1 suspect would stand up and cover the monitor and because of that I could not see too much so I then got hold of one of the Table PTZ and zoomed it in into that area. I monitored the suspects further and that is when I saw the monitor switch off every time he would cover the screen.
Upon further investigation I noticed that a piece of wire was protruding from under the cover by the monitor and further to that every time the screen would go off the slots on line monitor showed power off and the power on. I then became very suspicious and after zooming the screen I could see that when the ball landed in a number which was not covered by the guest, he would short the screen out and there fore his credits were re-imbursed to him (so he would not loose). When ever a winning bet was won he would not short the machine out.

The suspects where then apprehended and escorted to the interview room where they denied all allegations to them but never the less based on the coverage and the reports from the system the suspects were arrested. The machine was later inspected and it could be seen where their piece of wire was connected to the other piece, which then was able to short the machine out.

Beyers Rautenbach

All credit to Beyers for this! We found out at some stage, that this cheat method had originated from inland and that they were selling plans and kits for conducting the cheat. So, another money making industry.