Ocean’s Eleven in real life

Two years ago in spring one of the biggest Australian casinos Crown Casino became a victim of the fraud. The attention of all the gambling facility fans was attracted to the story as the scam was very close to the script of 'The Ocean’s Eleven'. Australian scam artists, just like movie version heroes (Brad Pitt and George Clooney) were able to outplay the gambling facility having the help from the inside in - a man responsible for the security system of the casino.

Crown Casino security service was alarmed by the consistency one of the visitors of the casino win fairly substantial amount of money. They started their own investigation.

The results were disappointing, Turned out, the group of the fraudsters, one of the members of which worked in the security service of the casino made only profitable bets with the help of high-resolution cameras. They managed to break-in the video system of the casino.

All the data from the cameras sent to the player. Thanks to the information he won about $32.000.000 in a short period of time. This is the biggest robbery in the history of the Crown Casino.

We should recall the accident which happened 17 years ago. In 1998 the gambling facility suffered a $1.800.000 loss in result of the deal between the fraudster and casino dealer. That time it took several months to discover.