Casino workers accused of skimming off slots - 2004-01-09
Six people were arrested and six more warrants have been issued in a case where casino workers are charged with skimming at least 50-thousand dollars in a year-long slot machine scam. Louisiana State Police spokesman Lieutenant.

William Davis says more warrants might be issued, although the number of employees involved in the incident is not certain.

The casino's losses also might end up being far more than 50-thousand dollars. The employees are accused of taking part in a scheme in which they used their supervisors' access codes to take between 800 and 11-hundred dollars from the slots at Casino Rouge.
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The World's No.1 Science & Technology News Service - 2004-01-09
When rumours emerged in 2003 that the European Central Bank was silently planning to put RFID (radio frequency identification) tags in euro banknotes to fight fraud and money laundering, privacy groups balked at the prospect that anybody with an RFID reader could count the money in wallets of passers by.

While the rumours have not been confirmed or denied a new generation of casino chips with built-in RFID tags is giving an insight into the way banks and shops could keep track of real money if it were tagged. The chips will be launched later in 2004 and will allow casino operators to spot counterfeits and thefts, and also to monitor the behaviour of gamblers.
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