> Borst said the university told the three students midway through last school year that their university-based financial aid would be reduced. “We didn’t hear any complaint, and that is also a big red flag,” Borst said. “If they were needy, they would have come in to talk with us.”

That's reminiscent of what gave away Louis Colavecchio, who was ripping off Atlantic City casinos with counterfeit tokens. The casinos knew they were being ripped off, because their token inventory was higher than they could account for, and the discrepancy was increasing.

The counterfeit tokens were good enough that the casinos had no way to detect them, and when they sent a batch of tokens back to the manufacturer that they were sure include at least some counterfeits and asked if the manufacturer could come up with some way to fight this, the manufacturer said all the tokens were genuine.

What finally happened is that Colavecchio was using his counterfeit tokens at a slot machine that took high value tokens, like $50, and the token mechanism jammed. Colavecchio just moved over to the next machine, and continued playing.

The security people saw this, and found it very suspicious. When a machine jams and eats someone's $50 token, they don't just move over and continue gambling, even if they are a gambling addict. They go find casino staff to retrieve the jammed token or get reimbursed.

They detained him and searched his car and room, and found a large collections of tokens for several casinos, and knew they had finally found the counterfeiter.