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. 

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#:~:text=%E2%80%9CRace%E2%80%9D%20is%20usually%20associated%20with,and%20characterize%20seemingly%20distinct%20populations.