This time it didn't happen at the tables but rather before the cheater got to the tables. Thirty-one-year-old De Jin Lin, who is not known to be associated with any professional casino cheating rackets (mainly the Tran Organization which laid down the world's biggest multi-million-dollar international casino scam last year),has been arrested and charged with using counterfeit credit cards to bilk the Connecticut casino out of forty grand via cash advances.
Lin pulled off these credit capers during a four-day period from February 15th to February 19th, according to casino authorities. Apparently he used as many as a dozen phony credit cards to obtain the cash. But, sadly to say, and more sadly not surprising, Lin gambled away every penny that he pilfered from the casino. So at the end of the day, the casino breaks out even while Lin loses...well, at least a couple of years.
Connecticut State Police got wind of the scam when a man in California received his credit card bill and noticed charges of $2,000 from the Mohegan Sun Casino, to which he had never been. He called the police, which got the investigation of Lin rolling.
Well, I guess this is just another example of the old "revolving door" theory concerning casinos--money in, money out.
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