Editing Slot machine (section)

===Fraud===
Mechanical slot machines and their coin acceptors were sometimes susceptible to cheating devices and other scams. One historical example involved spinning a coin with a short length of plastic wire. The weight and size of the coin would be accepted by the machine and credits would be granted. However, the spin created by the plastic wire would cause the coin to exit through the reject chute into the payout tray. This particular scam has become obsolete due to improvements in newer slot machines. Another obsolete method of defeating slot machines was to use a light source to confuse the optical sensor used to count coins during payout.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-08-11-slot-cheats_x.htm|title=Slot machine cheat bilked casinos with ingenious gadgets|newspaper=USAToday.com |access-date=2014-06-08}}</ref>

Modern slot machines are controlled by EPROM computer chips and, in large casinos, coin acceptors have become obsolete in favor of bill acceptors. These machines and their bill acceptors are designed with advanced anti-cheating and anti-counterfeiting measures and are difficult to defraud. Early computerized slot machines were sometimes defrauded through the use of cheating devices, such as the "slider", "monkey paw", "lightwand" and "the tongue". Many of these old cheating devices were made by the late Tommy Glenn Carmichael, a slot machine fraudster who reportedly stole over $5 million.<ref>{{Cite web|last=LaPointe|first=Michael|date=2020-02-04|title=The Edison of the Slot Machines|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/02/04/the-edison-of-the-slot-machines/|access-date=2020-10-08|website=The Paris Review|language=en}}</ref> In the modern day, computerized slot machines are fully deterministic and thus outcomes can be sometimes successfully predicted.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Koerner|first1=Brendan|title=Russians Engineer a Brilliant Slot Machine Cheat—And Casinos Have No Fix|url=https://www.wired.com/2017/02/russians-engineer-brilliant-slot-machine-cheat-casinos-no-fix|access-date=7 February 2017|magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]|date=8 February 2017}}</ref>