Nowadays, it is pretty difficult to cheat on slots, especially if you play mobile slots and other forms of online casino games. In the age of technology where data is visible almost everywhere, casino owners can quickly notice a cheater. Above all, the security of legal online casinos is so high that it is virtually impossible to cheat.
But slots were not that well protected a couple of decades ago, and Tommy Glenn Carmichael was well aware of that fact.
His cheating career began when he found out that he could insert a metal device into a slot machine and trigger a payout from it. However, that ended when the slot makers replaced slots with a newer generation so that trick did not work anymore. Luckily for him, there were still casinos in Vegas that used old types of slots, so he mainly played in them, but was eventually caught, ending up in prison for five years.
However, Carmichael seemed to like his career as a slot cheater, and he resumed his job as soon as he got out of the prison. Being absent for half a decade, he was overrun by technology which has penetrated slots machines so he had to come up with a new method of cheating in slots machines.
In fact, his new method was not that different from his previous one, as the principle remained the same — insert a piece of something that triggers a jackpot. This new invention was called a slider or a monkey paw, and it was eventually discovered among slot players.
Then came the electronic slot games, and Carmichael was once again determined to crack them. In fact, he bought himself one such slot and invented something called a light wand which shone light into electrical slots to cause them to trigger payment.
Carmichael was not set to make an enterprise from his product and started selling it illegally until he was arrested once again. In fact, he was arrested several more times, but the slot makers understood his genius, and he ended up working for them.
Nowadays, Carmichael works as an assistant to many slot makers, creating anti-cheating devices for land-based slots. Some of his anti-cheating systems are probably applied to online slots — who knows? In other words, it doesn’t matter whether you play slots offline or on mobile casinos, you will not be able to cheat slots as one of the masterminds that now works on the side of the law is Carmichael himself.