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Scamming the Slots (3 of 3)

One of the more improbable slot machine scams to be cooked up by crooks involves manipulating the computer inside the device. Many of these slot game scams were perpetrated upon old-fashioned devices with few technological safeguards; this method actually tries to exploit the high-tech guts of the one-armed bandit.

Have you ever played a video game, like the Super Mario Brothers titles for the original Nintendo system and found instances where a certain combination of buttons pressed in a certain place in the level would take Mario to “coin heaven” or activate a bonus? Some hacker types have said that, by “button mashing” the controls of the slot in a certain order in a certain time span will confuse it and cause it to drop its load of coins. There have been no actual recorded instances where this has worked, however – unless, of course, these geniuses have never been caught.

Perhaps there really ARE ways to cheat slots, known only to a tightly-knit cabal of coconspirators sworn to secrecy, who have never been caught scamming and are carrying out their devious plan successfully. We’ll never know – but, again, we doubt it!

We know that playing the slots can be frustrating. No matter how many years you have logged sitting in front of a slot game, you are no more skilled at playing one than the greenest eighteen year old novice who just pulled a lever for the first time. Losing streaks can be annoying and costly, and it would be a whole lot nicer if we COULD, somehow, get good enough at the darned things to make some serious change. Resorting to criminal tactics is never the answer, however. If your morality doesn’t stop you from this tricks, image cooling your years for a few years in prison. That ought to work as an effective deterrent!

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