Casino Security video and I looked through some time figured attacker. It appeared to be a dark-haired man of thirty in a T-shirt with a square and a brown wallet. Unlike most gaming fraud, he did not seem to do anything with them to the selected slot machines. All of these machines were rather old production model of the Australian company Aristocrat Leisure. This person just press the button, playing the "Star tramp" and "Pelican Pete", and he at that time applied a sneak your iPhone on the screen of the machine.
After playing for a few minutes, he left, and then back again to try their luck. And then he began to take furiously. he received as many as 1300 at 20-60 dollars spent, and then finished the game and went on to another machine, where it all starts over again. For two days his winnings totaled more than 21 thousand dollars. The only oddity in his behavior was that he had long held a finger over the button "Start", and then pushed her sharply and quickly. Usually the players do not make such long pauses between strokes.
June 9 casinos to share their observations with the Gambling Commission of Missouri, announced that an alarm throughout the state. Some casinos soon discovered that they, too, had been deceived in a similar manner, although there came other people, not like a man who cheated in the Lumiere Place. In each case, the attacker applied a cell phone to the machine model Aristocrat Mark VI, and then pressed the button at random.
After analyzing data on the rental car, Missouri authorities have calculated that the fraud involved Lumiere Place Casino 37-year-old Russian citizen Murat Bliev. June 6 Bliev flew to Moscow, but the St. Petersburg organization, in which he worked (it - dozens of employees who take advantage of "one-armed bandits" in the world), quickly sent him back to the US, where he joined another group of swindlers. The decision to send Bliev again in the United States became a rare oversight of the enterprise that is quietly stealing millions, breaking the most complex and valuable algorithms gaming industry.
From Russia with fraud
Russia is one of the main centers of fraud with slot machines since 2009, when the country outlawed almost all gambling. Vladimir Putin, who was then the position of the head of government, supposedly believed that such measures will reduce the influence of the Georgian organized crime. Because of the prohibition of thousands of casinos have been forced to sell at bargain prices their slot machines to those customers whom they could find. Some cheap "one-armed bandits" were in the hands of fraudsters who really wanted to learn how to download new games in the old board. Other machines were in the hands of the bosses Bliev in St. Petersburg, and they have tried to crack the program codes of these machines in search of vulnerabilities.
By early 2011, many casinos in Central and Eastern Europe began to detect cases where the production of slot machines of the Austrian company Novomatic paid extremely large winnings. Novomatic's engineers could not find anything that would indicate a burglary. Therefore, they suggested that fraudsters figured out how to predict the behavior of slot machines. "Through targeted and long-term monitoring of the individual sequences of the game can be expected to find a certain" regularity "in its results", - informed the Novomatic its customers in February 2011.
To identify these patterns, a huge effort is needed. Game slot machines run a program called "pseudo-random number generators" (PRNG). They deliberately give a completely incomprehensible and puzzling results. State regulatory bodies such as the Commission on Gambling Missouri checked every such algorithm in the technical condition and perfection, and only then give the casino permission to use them.
However, it suggests the prefix "pseudo", these numbers are not entirely random.
