A Swiss casino has been recognized in Las Vegas with an excellence in surveillance award for detecting baccarat scammers.
Swiss Casinos Zurich was honored last week at the World Game Protection Conference for its takedown in 2024 of the scammers known as the Chinese Eleven. It was the largest scam in Switzerland’s casino history and part of the No. 1 scam voted on at the 2025 conference. It involved about US$175,000.
The so-called “baccarat cut-card scam” originated in Macau, then proliferated. Many scammers from Asia migrated to other parts of the world to carry it out, including to Zurich…