Not a gambler. Did I just loose an easy $600 ?

casino owner wrote:

I own two small casinos. She was asking you to put your name on the tax form. It’s tax fraud. Plain and simple. W2Gs are issued for slot winnings of 1200 or more without deductions for the initial bet. Most casinos do care about this! They are highly licensed. We are not allowed to pay anyone but the person who won. That doesn’t mean you might not find an employee who doesn’t care.

I can hardly think of a more destructive business to be involved in. Every dollar a casino creates for a community it causes 10x in damage. It preys primarily on the low income and minority. It destroys families, bankrupts communities. Now you might say… well they would gamble regardless. Similar to rat park experiments and heroin-addicted Vietnam vets returning after the war, this is simply not true.

Btw, tax fraud had nothing to do with it and that was not the point of the scam.

General life hack...

Saying no to a stranger in a casino who offers you free money for an inordinately simple task is always a good idea.

Always.

I've never understood why people think we prey on the poor. It makes no sense. As for minorities almost all my customers are white and over 55. The community I'm in had almost gone out of business when they legalized casinos. I rent one of my casinos for 400k a year from a person who bought the building for 25k. Almost all our good customers are fairly well off. A lot of them are business owners or retired.

Of course the original "scam" is tax fraud. I've dealt with this on a number of occasions where we have to use surveillance to see who actually hit a jackpot. Our state has a weird rule that we have to pay the person who pulled the handle or pushed the button. I think it should be the person who has the money at risk. That's the "consideration" in the transaction.

As for a destructive business. Probably the worst casino owner in the USA (based on how many people he didn't pay and how many bankruptcies he had) got elected President so I guess most people either disagree or don't care.

"My guess is

1) she is on probation and not allowed there or has an open warrant

2) she is on the hook with the casino (cashed paychecks that weren’t good or something similar)

3) she gamed the system- ticket was fake or machine was rigged or ticket was stolen."

1 we wouldn't check that and that doesn't show up on checks we run before paying W2G's

2 Strangely we can't refuse payment even if the customer owes us money

sticky bandits wrote:

Gasp! Spelled lose wrong. Gmafb. It’s letsrun!

Got the info I was interested in, thank you letsrun sleuths!

It wasn't a typo. This particular error is common with illiterates.

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kore wrote:

Vegas Trips used to be so amazingly cheap just a few years ago. I don't think people understand how cheap it was to stay at 5 star hotels and eat decent meals without breaking the bank. It save me from runner's eating disorders.

There seems to be a lot of money out there. I don’t get it.