Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash A software glitch at Star Casino in Sydney, Australia, saw it inadvertently give away millions in cash without realizing it – for weeks. News of the giveaway emerged on Monday at an independent inquiry into the casino, which has had years of compliance troubles that led to a finding that its operators were unsuitable to hold a …
Star is a criminal group.
Funded by millions in cash from embezzlement and similar white-collar crimes.
There was a suggestion that Star and Crown should be compelled to return proceeds of crime: predicably, that suggestion went nowhere.
(Not to mention the massively expanded pawnbroker (aka "receiver") industry that came along with the casinos)
When I worked in a testing department my only function was to hold up the already late release of the perfect software with pointless and unnecessary testing.
Or so I deduced from the comments of the people who crafted the utterly perfect software and the commercial crayon munchers.
When the inevitable bugs were discovered by our ungrateful customers they were labelled "test escapes" and were blamed on inadequate, hurried testing.
there's only 43-44 people being charged. The machines can only give out up to $2000 per ticket. They lost $millions over a fairly short period of time. It seems like a small number opf people were winning enough to have tickets to redeem and get an even bigger payout. It not only sounds organised, but they were winning anyway.
Or was it more subtle than that? Were there a small number people simply buying chips and then cashing them back in two tickets at a time? Are these 43-44 people being charged simply the ones who repeated the scam multiple times once they spotted while others only did it the one time, pockets the extra cash and left?
There seems to be gaps in the story outlining just what actually happened.
$3.2m / 43 = a bit over $74K each.
Seeing that it can give out up to $2K a ticket, and according to the article it returs your second ticket when you use 2, you need to somehow rack up enough to accumultae onto your $2K for one ticket, and then just play with a single low cash ticket in front.
Cashing out in this manner, you "just" need to do it 37 times. As this went on for "weeks" (and they didn't say months), I would guess something like 5-10 weeks. At the lower end with 5 weeks, that's 35 days. Do it once per day and you're good...
Probably a large % went to a small amount of the 43-44, meaning that they probably did more than the average, which would be indicative of it being organised... But even repeating this 5-10 times per day could be done relatively discretely.
"... the desire from people in the business to drill down on things in circumstances where they don't appear that they are correct."
What a nice way to describe a business where asking too many questions will get you nowhere (if some stories are to be believed, said "nowhere" is somewhere out in the desert...)
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