Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Retooled scams, rising casino-worker theft seen to reflect tough economy

Everything comes back in style eventually -- even crimes apparently.

That's what appears to be happening at many casinos today at least, according to a panel of security experts that spoke Monday during the first day of conferences at the Global Gaming Expo.

The panel said that despite new technology, or perhaps because of it, many of the crimes that casino security people are seeing today are updates of old scams.

"When there is nothing new they can create, they go back to the old," said Jessie Beaudoin, senior director of surveillance at the Hard Rock Hotel. "A lot of the things you hear about are not new scams, per se. But they're trends that are starting to rear their ugly heads again."

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