The names of the devices are as colorful as the people who used them. Monkey paw. Kickstand. Yo-yo. These are some of the cheating devices criminals brought to Nevada casinos to trick slot machines ...

Sentencing has been postponed for two casino cheats listed in Nevada's Black Book and a woman who was their accomplice in a 2006 slot machine-cheating scheme used at several Las Vegas-area casinos. In ...

The ElectroMagnetic Pulse (EMP) devices, which are prohibited by the Federal Communication Commission, are used to "jam" the inner workings of a slot machine. EMP generators create electromagnetic ...

Four Russian nationals have been indicted by the federal government for allegedly traveling to the United States to cheat at slot machines in Missouri, California and Illionis. According to KSDK, the ...

Slot machines at a St. Louis-area casino are shown in this file photo. ST. LOUIS • Federal prosecutors on Wednesday said that a grand jury indicted three Russian nationals and a man of Russian ...

In early June 2014, accountants at the Lumiere Place Casino in St. Louis noticed that several of their slot machines had—just for a couple of days—gone haywire. The government-approved software that ...

The Gaming Control Board took less than 10 minutes Thursday to nominate a convicted slot machine cheat for membership as the 36th name on the state's List of Excluded Persons, commonly referred to as ...

The Nevada Gaming Commission on Thursday added Larry Keith Green, a convicted slot machine cheat, to the state’s List of the Excluded Persons. The list, commonly referred to as the Black Book, makes ...

Natasha Dow Schüll is an associate professor in the program in science, technology and society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of "Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in ...