All sorts of social engineering going on. I’m sure the employee was told by the supposed owner (but scammer) they are the ones that their cage boss Mr. X was told they could trust most. But that this had to be done on the down low and quick with cash because the casino messed up and were non compliant the last 2 days with fire code and could get shut down…and they don’t want the fire department or governors office to know that they weren’t compliant.
How this cash then could just get taken out of the cage without any further question outside of the employee saying “Mr Stevens said to do this” is an issue, but casinos arent thst naieve either, so maybe there is some code word used for this type of situation that the scammer knew and thus was verified when the employee used it by whoever else let the money out the cagr.
Finally, it sounds like not a totally uncommon thing for cash to leave the cage like that in general for various payments which the IRS may take issue with and casinos may not fully like to report all those details as part of a story line this.
]]>There are controls in place already. These women decided that a phone call was enough to override all controls??. Unbelievable
]]>I blame the public schools.
]]>What lady? This happened at several casinos. There were many who fell for it. This is basically a ransom scam. They’re not new. However, I am a bit taken aback by the fact that a cashier can just put $300-500k in a bag, walk out the front door, get in a car and trot on down to a drop location like it’s just a trip to the grocery store. That part makes no sense.
]]>I think about this every time a car rental company invites me to return a vehicle at their “drop box.” “Put the keys here and we’ll do the rest.” Yeah, bullish*t. Then I get a bill for the “damage” they find later. Or the car is “stolen.” No, I want a receipt, with an employee name and number. And I take a picture of the car, and a video with that employee in it. Might be not be a slam dunk, but at least I have some evidence.
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