• Fraud Friday: The MIT Blackjack Team (w/ Chinedu Unaka)

  • Oct 11 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
  • Podcast

Fraud Friday: The MIT Blackjack Team (w/ Chinedu Unaka)

  • Summary

  • Chinedu Unaka (Abbott Elementary, Insecure) joins the Con-gregation to discuss how a group of MIT and Harvard students in the 80s perfected card counting and took to casinos, making over $57 million dollars. Plus, a former British Airways pilot is sentenced to a year in jail after he falsified his flying experience. Stay Schemin’! (Originally Released 04/18/2022)

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    Research by Kaelyn Brandt

    SOURCES:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20050113100211/https://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Archives/CA_Show_Article/0,2322,324,00.html

    https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27519748

    https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/10/3223068/mit-mike-aponte-blackjack-card-counting-defcon

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/31/pilot-jailed-lying-flying-experience-get-british-airways-job/

    https://www.businessinsider.com/british-airways-pilot-jailed-faked-resume-flying-experience-pressed-button-2022-4

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/race-ethnicity

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