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'McMillions': How the Ex-Cop Who Scammed McDonald's Monopoly Got Caught (2020)
- theamk 1y agoThis is a podcast promoting a TV series. It has zero interesting information about how the scam worked. If you are curious, read wikipedia instead[0], or long-form Daily Beast article linked from it [1] TL/DR: The game was set up such that specific, very uncommon pieces, were needed to win a large prize, and those were very rare. The chief of security set up elaborate scheme to make sure those prize-winning pieces were distributed properly. That same person started stealing them and selling to others, for a fraction of the prize won. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s_Monopoly#Fraud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s_Monopoly#Fraud [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180731040134/https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-rigged-mcdonalds-monopoly-game-and-stole-millions https://web.archive.org/web/20180731040134/https://www.theda...