August 20, 2002

THE WIZARD TELL'S ALL

The information presented here is not intended as a How-To-Manual for busting slot machines, but rather an alternative look at what has been tried and by who. Obviously the one's who got away with their scam will not be discussed ... cause for one, they haven't been caught! Here we'll cover a few famous scam's and scammers, ones who could care less about, best machines to play, pay tables, win cycles, pay back percentages or even jackpot's, these people just took the money whenever they needed it, slot theft amounts to millions and millions of dollars, and will probably continue until such time when slots become coin-less!

We'll look at tool and die makers who stamp out counterfeit tokens ... to a Gaming Board employee who needed to give himself a cash advance in the millions by reprogramming computer chips, and another who fiddled with video poker machines. Then you'll read about the unfortunate people who have won legitimate jackpots, but never got paid because the casino's said the machines were malfunctioning, believe it or not, this has happened to dozens of people and for big money! ... what a crock! Imagine if you deposit money into your bank account through an ATM, and the bank tell's you, " Sorry but your money is lost because our machine was broken ".

Where there's a will ... there's a way, and many have found a way, but in most cases their greed for much more money got them clobbered, in fact, most would have gotten away with their scam's if it were not for their greed! But don't get me wrong, I'm not condoning theft if one could get away with it, but the fact remains, with millions in their pockets, they still needed more, go figure. Familiarity does breed contempt!

Probably the best place to start is with the easiest and most prevalent of all slot scam's and that is counterfeit's, which include slugs, coins and tokens. One of the biggest slot token counterfeiting case's ever was when a tool and die maker decided to make his own play money, some $49,000 worth.

Louis Colavecchio of Providence, R.I, went big time, but then he was caught playing with his very good look a like tokens, and when police searched his tool and die company, they found over 40 dies for stamping out tokens that could be used in Vegas, Atlantic City and even in Connecticut at I guess Foxwoods. see Counterfeit Slot Tokens

Over the years people have tried just about everything you could imagine as far as fudging with coins, from tying a piece of thread to a coin, inserting it into the coin slot and then giggling it back and forth to try and get credits, but little did they know that there was a reverse coin movement alarm on each and every machine. Now these same people are trying to giggle themselves out of the state penitentiary system. No luck there either! see Bar Coded Tokens

No contest, the low-tech criminals were being swatted like flies, casino cameras and slot systems alarms took care of that. Ever ear of the saying " Necessity Is The Mother Of All Invention " ... slot scammers knew that they had to come up with a better and more efficient way to empty the coin, and they did, to the tune of millions!

Let's start with some slot machine cheating devices like the very ingenious " Monkey Claw " ... this device was used to literally empty hundreds if not thousands of machines, and one of the best at it was, Dennis Nikrasch, the master mind who is reported to have cleaned up on as much as 8 to 15 million dollars.

The " Monkey Claw " was simply a high intensity light bulb, Xenon or Halogen quartz, connected to a 6 inch piece of stiff piano wire and then to a set of batteries and switch. The claw was inserted into the slot machine where the winning coins are counted out into the tray. The light bulb of the claw was positioned so that it would defeat or fool the coin counter into thinking that no coins were being paid-out when in fact they were coming out by the bucket full. see Monkey Claw

Where there is smoke, there's usually fire ... where there is money , there's usually a thief and they don't get any better than this guy, Ronald Harris, and get this, he was a Gaming Control Board computer expert who was supposed to catch the thieves. Ronald Harris, actually modified the computer control software chips to pay-out money at certain interval's, he kept track of these trigger points, and just cashed in. see Ronald Harris

" Ignorance Is Bliss " especially when your a slot machine technician. In 1990, 49 year old Larry Volk was murdered because of what he knew and what he could do, and that was to reprogram computer chips used on video games, and here's a twist, so that the games would not pay-out! see Murdered

We've read about how slots can be scammed by hook and crook, now let's take a look at how you can earn good money from those slots, LEGALLY!  see Ultimate Slot Buster ... Track-N-Crack

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