Fraud

Fraudulent or rigged gambling operations sometimes use celebrity figures as a 'face card' to attract wealthy or unsuspecting players to illicit games.

Operators of rigged poker games have modified self-shuffling machines to read the cards in a deck and transmit that information to off-site collaborators who relay it to players at the table to gain an illicit advantage.

Pre-marked playing cards combined with specialty contact lenses or eyeglasses capable of reading those marks have been used to identify players' cards covertly in cheating operations.

Kickback and procurement fraud schemes often involve creating sham companies or using associates to bill for services that were not provided and then returning money to insiders as kickbacks.

Using government or organizational purchasing cards for personal purchases can constitute theft or embezzlement from a public entity.

Organized gambling frauds can recruit well-known individuals or former professional athletes as 'face' participants to attract victims, with the recruited individuals sometimes receiving a portion of the criminal proceeds.