In 2013 a man was able to steal $33 million AUD from the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia via hacking into their surveillance system. The individuals has never been apprehended and the casino itself has been somewhat cagey about how the crime even took place to begin with. It has been deduced by security experts though that player was likely wearing an earpiece while an accomplice had access to the security camera footage. In such a privileged position he would of course be able to inform the player of what to bet on and how much.

Shortly after the incident a VIP staff member responsible for looking after the players was fired, leading some to believe that he was involved. No further action was taken though, so it’s hard to deduce anything further from that. Just as it’s unlikely that the casino will eve see that $33 million AUD again.

The Roselli Brothers blow many casino scammers completely out of the water. Over a five year period between 1995 and 2000 they obtained  $37 million + from casinos in Nevada, New Jersey,and Puerto Rico. They did all of this without risking a penny of their own, or without any game specific con.

In fact they achieved their con via what amounts to identity theft. The bothers hired a hacker to find individuals with good credit scores, then they opened new accounts under those individuals names, depositing $50,000 in the process. This deposit then made it easy for them (using their fake ID) to gain a line of credit with casinos, sometimes over time to the point of upward of a million dollars.

This went on for 5 years and the brothers even had a big blowout night in Las Vegas where they gambled up to $100,000 per hand. The brothers then cashed out their winnings and disappeared. It was 6 months before the FBI releaised that the scam had even taken place, at which time the pair were long gone. Funnily though it was discovered that even The Roselli Brothers were stolen identities (of brothers who died years prior) and so they still to this day have no idea who the pair were.