Salim Kara stole $2M in coins with a magnet and a car antenna

Re:Salim Kara stole $2M in coins with a magnet and a car ant... by londons_explore on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @04:56AM (#38839965)

The 20% could easily be missed if it ended up looking like a ticket wasn't sold at all (ie. just 20% fewer tickets got sold).

Many railways don't keep track of the paper that tickets are sold on, because the same paper is used for printing receipts, seat reservations, free/discounted tickets etc.

Many railways also have a double digit percentage of fare evasion. Also, many railways operate partially/mostly on government funds not ticket revenue, so a 20% loss in ticket revenue wasn't a 20% drop in total revenue.

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Re:Salim Kara stole $2M in coins with a magnet and a car ant... by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @07:32AM (#38840956)

But they had a record that said how much he stole. So they knew how much they were supposed to earn vs what they did earn.

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Re:Salim Kara stole $2M in coins with a magnet and a car ant... by toogan on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @05:05AM (#38840031)

But surely they would have a counter of how many tickets were sold in a machine?

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Re:Salim Kara stole $2M in coins with a magnet and a car ant... by londons_explore on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @05:36AM (#38840218)

I do wonder if the repairman had the ability to reset/twiddle with that counter...

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Re:Salim Kara stole $2M in coins with a magnet and a car ant... by Topgamer7 on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @11:00AM (#38842960)

It literally calls this out in the article folks. Leadership attributed it to a software bug and didn't look into it further.

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