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EP. 134 — The Scammin’ Scholars of Cambridge w/ Chinedu Unaka
What’s poppin’ con-gregation? This week, Chinedu Unaka joins us to discuss how in the 80’s a group of MIT and Harvard students 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 it was discovered he wasn’t actually the pilot he said he was. Stay Schemin’!
Research by Kaelyn Brandt.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27519748
https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/10/3223068/mit-mike-aponte-blackjack-card-counting-defcon
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