Casino cash advance machines

[Buckwheet]

So I got taken out to lunch today and we decided to hit the casino.

While in there I saw a machine that said it was a credit card cash advance machine that required no pin number.

I am just curious if anyone has seen these, and has any additional information on how they work?

Couldn't someone just steal a credit card, drive to the local casino(there are about 5 within 1 hour of downtown here) and just cash out?

Thanks.

[Celephais]

Casinos are the last place you want to be commiting a crime...

That and as it is you can steal a credit card and spend them just about anywhere, granted it's not cash, but there are plenty of things that can be bought that are just about as liquid as cash.

[Sean of the Thread]

Online casinos are the place you want to launder credit card money.

Curious Buckwheet.. what was the terminal fee? Or just stuck by the CC card cash advance rules?

[Skeeter]

you run the card through, then sign the reciept at the cashier. they give you the mad lootz and charge you a rediculous fee. like 20% or so.

[SpunGirl]

Not to mention that they ask for your ID, ask to see the card you used, and compare those two with the receipt to make sure you're not ripping anyone off.

We actually caught a major group of people who were manufacturing fradulent credit cards in this manner. Bwahahahaha.

-K

[Buckwheet]

Yeah I have no idea about the fees.

But the thing was right near the exit doors and across from the first cashier.

I just saw it as I was walking out the door. Since it said no pin required, I am guessing it acts just like a regular card charge. But the advertising for it was pretty massive, very colorful and was definetly made to attract attention to it.

I wasn't sure if it gave you a voucher to the cashier or what, but the first idea that came to mind was it would give you the paper receipt that can get put back into a slot machine etc.

So you could just go blow the cash on whatever you wanted, then get a new receipt, turn that in for chips and go play cards.

I guess its good to know that they have the checks in place.

Speaking of online casinos, I mess around on a few and the only way I could think to "launder" money through them would be to create multiple accounts, and make it look like a real game. Pass the money around and then try and cash out somehow.

Problem is I think most of them use Paypal accounts to send you your funds right? Since paypal is pretty anal about their accounts I don't think that would work well either.

I have had my account suspended because I shared a last name with someone that I did business with when they scammed someone else.

[Sean of the Thread]

Speaking of online casinos, I mess around on a few and the only way I could think to "launder" money through them would be to create multiple accounts, and make it look like a real game. Pass the money around and then try and cash out somehow.

Problem is I think most of them use Paypal accounts to send you your funds right? Since paypal is pretty anal about their accounts I don't think that would work well either.


It works perfect. Push money around in online card/casino games and it's gone forever.

[Stanley Burrell]

I would assume that getting busted for a transaction turned into a wire fraud, while in a casino, would be on scale with that clip from America's Dumbest Criminals where that one guy trying to escape the police drives into a maximum security federal prison yard.

Now, playing devil's advocate, I guess that if you masterminded a ploy to disguise your identity while hiring a susceptible group of individual(s) who are exploitable and would succumb to this sort of crime, you could probably implement a pretty primitive relay system by analog means far enough outside that could harvest liquid money with great probability of the original perpetrator's escape unrecognized.