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Alleged high-tech roulette scam "easy to set up"
A physicist who developed a technology-based system that famously beat the wheel in the 1970s has told New Scientist that "in theory, it would have been fairly easy to carry out the alleged high-tech roulette scam - that saw three people walk out of a London casino with £ 1.3 million recently - with a little know-how and the right tools". "Some media reports have suggested they used mobile phones fitted with laser scanners to measure the speed of the roulette ball when it was released, in order to calculate where it was likely to fall. The whole calculation would need to have been completed in just a few seconds, as the dealer cuts off betting after the ball has rolled three times around the wheel. But the trick could be pulled off a lot more simply if the phones were used as stop watches, says Norman Packard, a physicist at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, US". The cell phones reportedly used in the alleged London scam could have been used to determine the ball's speed if buttons on the phones were pressed when the ball was released and then after one revolution, Packard says. In fact, some cell phones have their own built-in stopwatches. A remote computer, or perhaps even one in the phone, could then solve the equations "very rapidly", says Packard, "because you've done all that homework". |
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