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Losing is impossible if the casino gives you millions of dollars and does not demand paying back!
Would you like to come to a gambling house, borrow a couple of hundred thousand dollars, buy chips, cash them out later, and never worry about returning them? Our characters had criminal talent, strong nerves, and resourcefulness for quite a long time.
Roselli Brothers Fraud
At the heart of their plan, they had so-called "identity stealing" (stealing information of foreign documents to use for personal gain). Roselli brothers of Monmouth, New Jersey, did their incredible thing in Atlantic City, Las Vegas, and Puerto Rico casinos from the mid-nineties of the 20th century up to the beginning of 2000.
- They did it with the help of a hacker.
- He hacked the national credit system.
- Then stole spotless credit histories of American and foreign individuals.
- After that, they opened new accounts in the names of these people.
- They used them in the credit departments of the largest casinos.
When they heard the casino was ready to provide the credit only to those with a stable account balance for at least six months, it did not cause the slightest difficulty for the Roselli brothers. They already were experienced gangsters who could efficiently operate with large amounts.
They opened accounts on nominees and deposited half a million to each of them.
Six months later, almost all casinos willingly opened their credit lines and transferred fifty thousand dollars to these accounts.
Incredible Results
For over five years, the Roselli brothers visited Atlantic City, Las Vegas, and Puerto Riko casinos every weekend. They willingly used everything casinos offered for free:
- luxury hotel rooms,
- fine cuisine,
- elite alcohol,
- transfer and so on.
They took loans, got chips, and played, forcing the casino management to believe they spent all the money, although their partners won back at the other side of the table. Then they willingly signed the bills.
Credit departments adored such customers, so the loan size grew constantly and reached millions of dollars in some casinos. Brothers kept playing, creating the illusion of significant losses. Their scheme was very complicated and involved dozens of partners from New Jersey.
However, no casino knew each brother had a few partners, so they didn't suspect becoming victims of the biggest credit cheaters.
Sometimes they acted aggressively and even clumsy, but they got away with it. The impressive credit history and demeanor of these rich people did the job.
Leave and Slam the Door
Amid the Christmas holidays of 2000, they've been to Las Vegas for the last time to escape forever, slamming the door behind them. They visited all casinos and got a massive loan under different names. They've carefully tracked the pit bosses at other casinos to ensure no one realized the brothers appeared in several guises. After a couple of big bets in every casino, they left, and no one saw them again.
The result of their job was 37 million dollars.
This cheating was exposed only six months later. First, casinos started to remind debtors to pay the loans politely. But their notices went to the addresses indicated in the accounts opened by Roselli. Casinos got no response and began to threaten with lawsuits. Then they tried to call because they were forwarded to the unique services with automatic responses.
Six months later, the FBI got interested in the situation, but the Rosselli brothers were already gone. Finally, we should mention that the real Roselli brothers died long before the cheating. The cheaters stole their data. It turns out that the FBI does not even know who exactly they are looking for.