Part I: Card Game Cheating · ELECTRONIC AIDS AND HIGH-TECH DEVICES
Hidden Camera Card Scanning
How it works
Modern hidden cameras for card cheating have become miniaturized and are concealed in everyday objects. Common concealments include: power banks, watches, buttons on shirts, car keys, lighters, cigarette packs, and t-shirts with pinhole cameras. These cameras capture images of cards as they are dealt or rest on the table, and transmit the images to a remote accomplice or AI system. In a 2024 French casino case, a camera built into the side of a phone, angled slightly upward, caught the cards as they were dealt while the phone lay flat on the table. The images are transmitted via WiFi or cellular to an off-site location where an accomplice analyzes the footage.
Where it appears
Poker, Blackjack, Baccarat, any card game
On the record
In July 2024, French police arrested two men at a casino just outside Paris. One phone, lying flat on the table, had a camera built into its side, angled slightly upward to catch the cards as they were dealt. The footage went to an accomplice in a car in the car park, who called the cards back through an earpiece so small that it had to be removed with a magnet.
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