Card counting isn't considered illegal. Casinos have the right to deny service to anyone, and of makes sense to deny players from playing a game in which they have an advantage versus the house. This isn't cheating in any sense of the word. 994 P.2d 1151 (2000) CHEN v. NEVADA STATE GAMING CONTROL BOARD and Monte Carlo Resort & Casino. Some games, like Hearthstone, don't have set rules about stream-sniping, so it's debatable whether stream-sniping can even be considered cheating in the first place (though I'd definitely call it. Cheating in casinos refers to actions by the player or the house which are prohibited by regional gambling control authorities. This may involve using suspect apparatus, interfering with apparatus, chip fraud or misrepresenting games. The formally prescribed sanctions for cheating depend on the circumstances and gravity of the cheating and the jurisdiction in which the casino operates. Just a short explanation as to why you really do not need to worry about the law when it comes to using hacks, bots, aimbots, wallhacks, scripts and other ch.

Cheating is a criminal offence in Singapore. This article explains when cheating is committed and the penalties for being convicted of cheating.

What is the Offence of Cheating in Singapore?

According to section 415 of the Penal Code, cheating occurs when a person:

Fraudulently or dishonestly deceives the victim to either hand over property or money to any person, or consent that another person retains his property or money; or
Intentionally induces a deceived victim into either doing anything that he would not do if he had not been deceived, or omitting to do something that he would have done if he had not been deceived. The acts or omissions must also cause, or must be likely to cause, damage or harm to any person in body, mind, reputation or property.

An example of cheating includes where the cheater pretends to be from the government and intentionally deceives the victim to pay for goods which the victim did not mean to pay for.

Penalties for Cheating

The penalty for cheating under section 415 of the Penal Code is a fine and/or imprisonment for up to 3 years.

In 2019, a full-time national serviceman was convicted of several cheating offences and sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 14 months.

One of these offences was committed in 2014, where the full-time national serviceman was given a list of event participants and their NRIC numbers as part of a volunteer stint. However, he used the list to make 49 mobile line applications in order to obtain heavily discounted or free mobile phones bundled with the mobile plans. He obtained 28 phones worth $30,152 in total and sold several to second-hand dealers.

He also pretended to be a Mediacorp representative in 2017 and deceived a company employee into delivering to him 50 T-shirts worth more than $600 in total, without paying for them.

In 2018, he deceived a victim into believing that he paid her for $5,000 worth of products by showing screenshots of purported bank transfers.

More recently, a 24-year-old man was sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment for deceiving 40 people into parting with $38,000 in total for concert tickets on online marketplace Carousell. Several victims were as young as 13 years old.

Aggravated cheating

There is a more serious form of cheating found under section 420 of the Penal Code, which targets cheating by intentional or dishonest inducement of the delivery of property.

Such aggravated cheating occurs when a person cheats and thereby dishonestly induces the victim to:

Hand over property to any person;
Partially or completely make, alter or destroy a valuable security* (such as credit cards, stored value cards and automated teller machine (ATM) cards);
Make, alter or destroy a signed and sealed document which may become a valuable security.

The penalty for such aggravated cheating under section 420 of the Penal Code is a fine and imprisonment for up to 10 years.

Other cheating offences

Cheating by personation

It is also an offence to “cheat by personation“. According to section 416 of the Penal Code, cheating by personation occurs when the cheater:

Pretends to be some other person;
Knowingly substitutes one person for another; or
Tells the victim that he or some another person (the cheater’s accomplice, for example) is someone else than who they really are,

regardless of whether the other person is alive or dead.

The penalty for cheating by personation under section 416 of the Penal Code is a fine, and/or imprisonment for up to 5 years.

Illegally obtaining personal information

As of 1 January 2020, it is an offence under section 416A of the Penal Code for a person to obtain, retain or supply someone else’s personal information for the purposes of facilitating the commission of an offence. This is provided that the cheater knows or has reason to believe that such information had been obtained without its owner’s consent.

An example of this offence would be the theft of identity documents by non-technological means. If the identity theft had taken place by technological means, the cheater could instead be charged with an offence under sections 3 to 6 of the Computer Misuse Act, relating to unauthorised access, modification or use of computer systems.

The penalty for illegally obtaining personal information under section 416A of the Penal Code is a fine of up to $10,000 and/or imprisonment for up to 3 years.

Cheating in casinos

Cheating may also take place in casinos. According to section 172A of the Casino Control Act, a person cheats at casinos if he attempts to obtain money or an advantage for himself or another person by:

A fraudulent trick, device, sleight of hand or representation;
A fraudulent scheme or practice;
A fraudulent use of gaming equipment; or
Placing a bet in a game after the result of the game is known.

The penalty for cheating in casinos under section 172A of the Casino Control Act is a fine of up to $150,000 and/or imprisonment for up to 7 years.

Cheating in computer games

Cheating in computer games can involve hacking into a game account and emptying it of valuable in-game items, which constitutes unauthorised access to computer material, as provided for in section 3 of the Computer Misuse Act.

The penalty for cheating in computer games under section 3 of the Computer Misuse Act is a fine of up to $5,000 and/or imprisonment for up to 2 years for a first offence.

If losses of at least $10,000 in value were caused as a result of the offence, the penalty is fine of up to $50,000 and/or imprisonment for up to 7 years.

How Will Offenders Convicted of Cheating be Sentenced in Singapore?

For the general offence of cheating, courts generally impose a fine if the quantum of the sum of money cheated is small and there are no aggravating factors.

For aggravated cheating under section 420 of the Penal Code, imprisonment is mandatory. Nonetheless, there are exceptional cases where an offender convicted of aggravated cheating may receive the sentence of imprisonment for only 1 day (in addition to the compulsory fine). This can only happen if there are no aggravating factors and there are exceptional mitigating factors.

Aggravating factors resulting in heavier sentences

1. Offences that ought to be deterred for the public interest (e.g. credit card fraud)

The Singapore courts treat credit card offences very seriously. This is because such offences grievously undermine credit cards as a preferred mode of payment in today’s commerce and Singapore’s standing as an international financial hub.

In the case of PP v Fernando Payagala, a 20-year-old Sri Lankan

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