Recently saw a story about a guy in Australia who won a car but Mc Donalds refused to give him the price so they got sued but instead of the car the judgement was a thousand dollars worth of Mc Donald's vouchers. Someone else explained that you would have to cross state lines to even win anything "big". I just don't understand how can this scam legally go on for so long.
when i was younger i was told of a woman winning a car and being denied the car also in australia also only she didnt sue or anything just kinda accepted they are liars
I remember a story on TV about a village fete where one stall let you win a brand new Jaguar if you did something crazy (roll a 6 on 12 dice all at once or something). A nearby dealership donated the car just to have on the stand, never thinking anyone would win. A 10 year old kid rocked up 10 minutes later and got it first go.
My mom won $1000 and when she tried to claim it they tried saying it was fake! The manager actually threatened to call the police and even tried to confiscate the winning monopoly piece. My dad was so mad he went inside and caused a scene. My dad was like I think your the one that’s trying to scam us. Guaranteed that guy was trying to pull a fast one on my mom so he could cash in the prize himself. He ended up actually calling the police and when they arrived, the cop even thought the manager was sketchy! The cop told us to call McDonald’s customer service to see if they can confirm the winning prize is indeed real. The moment the cop said that sentence. The manager immediately started sweating bullets. Even said “actually you guys should come in tomorrow Morning when our GM is here.” Lmfao the cop was like why didn’t you just say that from the beginning? Long story short, we called the customer service they were able to look up the number and confirm it was legit. He was super embarrassed. We left. That was that lol. It was the McDonald’s right near our apt complex. We didn’t see the manager anymore after that day 😅pretty sure he was fired
It’s nice to hear that someone actually won some money. We had no money growing up for extras like going to McD’s but my mom would wait until the Monopoly game came out and then we would go and we would actually want to win the food so we could go get it at other times. So my mom would save for that time of the year and then she would keep the winning food tickets for the fries and breakfast sandwiches and then it would be cheaper for us to go at other times. I think it’s really cool that your mom won the money. I’m really glad that she didn’t give her ticket to the shady manger.
McDonald’s employees, former employees, and relatives of McDonald’s employees are not allowed to cash out the pieces. He could’ve taken it from you, but there’s no way in hell he would’ve been able to cash it out himself. He would have had to conspire with a friend to cash it out
How do they not notice a head security officer suddenly blow huge amounts of money and such a massive life style change. There is a level of incompetence hiding underneath all of that.
They where simultaneously paying for him to take 5 star trips and dinner and a pay raise. He was probably spending on a company account so it was normal
He had mob connections so laundering the money would be easy, plus he was Head Of Security would easy clear $100 000. They didn't know tickets were being stolen so no reason to suspect him
@flippy5118 absolutely. Lots of jobs have critical sensitive positions that require serious background checks and continuous monitoring. Often for high value efforts, life/safety, and high security needs. Think of banks, financial institutions, internet security/encryption organizations, transportation industries. If companies didn't look into their employees you'd be in a dangerous world full of scams, theft, and dangerous equipment + risk to your own safety. With as much money put in this guy's trust they should have had multiple levels of checks and multi person security. I get investigated every year for my work and need to report all finances and legal activity/travel.
I worked in a mcd back in the 2000s and i remember a manager was fired because he got caught stealing sleeves of monopoly cups, also employees will once in a while peel them off. It was really hard to control. I hated when it was monopoly time in mcdonalds
Worked at mcdees starting in 2009, and my first time dealing with monopoly...man you'd have thought dropping a monopoly cup was the same as shitting on gold. I understood the idea of "now we have to cut this cut up to make sure the pieces can be given to someone" later on, but this video put it in perspective for me more. Honestly, I didn't believe anyone ever actually won the millions, so I just thought "Who cares? It's all fake anyway".
I worked next to a McDonald's for a few years. It was a night shift and whenever I would go during monopoly the staff would have a roll of the stickers that they were peeling off.
This story took a LOOOONG time to come out because the trial for this whole ordeal just happened to start on 10 September 2001, and the next day the media obviously had other things to cover for the next few years.
I think everyone missed the point. Robbins was simply stating that 9/11 was such a monumental event that this scam got buried in the background. Nobody is dumb enough to think that McDonald’s perpetrated 9/11 to cover this up.
I nearly died when the mafia guy cashed in the ticket for himself and appeared in the commercial 😂 Like something straight out of a movie... but a great story!!
IKR? It’s the same with our public clearing house. We all know it’s a scam but I wonder if something similar is going on with them too, there was with the cola cap bottle prizes too
Honestly I only ever played to get free French fries on occasion and now I have a wheat allergy so I can't even go to McDonald's any more because of cross contamination so I guess I won't be supporting the franchise any more lmao
I was a teenager in Canada at the time. I temporarily got foolishly addicted to the game and ate supersize meals every day for months. Bastards. Haven’t eaten that garbage for years.
My mom was oddly obsessed with the Monopoly game when we were kids back in the 90s. She was never a gambler or anything like that, but she hung up the paper Monopoly board and would paste all the little tickets she collected on it. We all hoped we'd win, but as an adult looking back on my mom with three kids and not much money I have a special appreciation of just how much she must have secretly hoped for a winning ticket. To learn that the whole thing was rigged by slimeballs just kinda makes me sad. And why did they not want Canadians to win?
Im Canadian and I even remember back in the 90’s and early 2000’s wondering “Has anyone ever seen or even heard of a single person winning anything more than a free small fries, burger or drink with this?”. I’m 35 now and still have yet to hear of any ‘big winners’, so I’ve sort of always known this was nothing but a scam, with the incentive of ‘But there still might be free foooood if you pay for the other foooood 😉’ lol.
Same here. I had many friends that worked at Mcds in 90s and asked them all if they ever heard of big winnings and they'd never even of medium prize winners in Canada.
I live in Canada. I didn't buy extra McDonald's stuff in the faint hope of winning a prize - but I'm pissed to know that when I hopefully peeled off my ticket I had already been scrooed out of ANY chance of winning by the Marketing company.
Many, MANY years ago, McDonalds had a trivia game. This was before smart phones etc. Well the trivia was old-time baseball. Which as a young lad, I STUDIED and MEMORIZED old-time baseball trivia. Well, I happened to be in a McDonalds (ironically after seeing a dentist), and lo and behold, I won. I also helped everybody around me win. (Minor prize, like a Sundae). I was told to leave the store. NOW you know why the ice cream machines never work.
In the 90s I was a kid living in a family with poverty and a lot of depression. I saw this game as my way to save my family. I carefully saved any game pieces I could get my hands on. I really believed I could do it - rescue my family from their circumstances. Knowing this guy was scamming us all, just makes me a little extra sad for my younger self.
That's the scam of crappy education in big Democrat cities. Think your only way out is the NFL or a music career, not the way that actually works for millions of people at better schools.
My mom was obsessed with the monopoly contest at McDonald's in the 90s to the point she'd constantly have us getting super sized everything for the extra prizes. I remember yelling at her that i couldn't eat a big Mac anymore because of it. And to know the entire time there was no chance anyway because some mafia family made a deal with this security guy...i feel attacked
It’s crazy because I actually convinced my family to stop trying to win this shit when I kept continually presenting a theory about how there was no final winning piece (if park place existed board walk didn’t and vice versa the next time) and my theory was that nobody would be able to prove that nobody was winning, McDonalds would just claim the winners didn’t want to be identified. But this is just wild, I don’t get how McDonalds never noticed they had a mole.
Jesus. A mother force-feeding her children McDonald's because of some delusional gambling addiction. There really needs to be some kind of test before people are allowed to have children.
I loved the monopoly game, when I was in college and had no money, a medium drink was $1 with one of those monopoly tickets and most of the time I won free fries, a hamburger every now and again! I never expected to win millions or a car, but man, the free food I won really helped a lot to get through those times!
This game was a non-stop W for me back in the mid 1990s when I was going to University. I'd win something to eat or drink anytime I ate lunch at McDonalds. Couple years later they tightened up the game with fewer winners, so it was no longer a good deal.
Yea it was great in middle and early high school, even a free fries or soda (which obv turned into five) was worth the skate down to get it. Never won any "real" prizes or knew anyone that did, though our town was small back then so maybe they didn't send any of the good pieces here.
@@Utubesanarc One summer of playing and not winning cued you into them stealing the top prizes? I recommend not playing the lottery (to be fair this applies to everyone...)
Yeah same. I would win a free cheeseburger or a drink with almost every meal I purchased. Now I just get the same 5 monopoly property stickers all the time 😔
I agree with you totally, but an almost trillion dollar company like McDonald’s would never want themselves 25:54 to be a laughingstock in front of Burger King and Wendy’s
I used to date this girl who lived out in the middle of nowhere. There was this weird gas station on the way that only took cash, but sold lottery tickets. We always won....something. A free drink, a thing of nachos, some jerky, something. Figured out after a while that the tickets were "fake". They were meant to get you to come back to redeem your free pepsi or whatever, but when you came back you also filled up your car, bought some nachos, whatever, and ended up spending more (in cash only remember) than what the gas station lost on the tickets. I would totally stop there if i was ever out that way again, it was fun. They sold lots of locally made stuff too, like candy, jerky, wine, crafts etc.
@@richardspillers6282 a few miles outside of Johnstown Pennsylvania. A mythical city in the eastern half of Pennsylvania that not only holds the worlds largest Incline Car Lift but was also almost completely destroyed in a flood 100 years ago after the damn broke. It's relation to the Mysterious Pittsburgh Clown Gang is unknown.
Our little town Bar & Casino, playing a machine earning reward points which you could use for an EASY chance to win a free Prime Rib Dinner for 2 on Saturday nights (Starting 4PM until 10PM, or when Prime Rib is sold-out). That's strategic marketing. They won it by playing machines, get them in on one of the busiest days for dinner and most likely they'll put money back into the machines. Boom. Profit. Most likely outweighing the cost of that free Prime Rib Dinner. Look at layouts of major chain gas stations and grocery stores. If they can get you in the door, the impulse buying sales are ingrained already without the customer already knowing. Want a drink at a gas station? Want a gallon of milk or eggs at the grocery store? You have to walk all the way thru the store, passing all the impulse items. "Sure, I could use a bag of Doritos."
The McDonald's premise wasn't far off from this. No one was winning every single time, but it was not at all uncommon to win a small order of french fries of a medium drink to get you back there.
especially being a lower middle class family, it didn’t help when the recession hit and my family plunged further down. games like this and that other monopoly game they had at shaws were our best friends. at 9 years old one of my favorite times was when i had to open a pile of tickets my mom got when grocery shopping and being tasked with sticking them onto the paper board, hoping that the next one i open would have the last one needed to win literally anything. we also never heard of anyone winning that one either so i wonder if this same type of thing happened.
I was always just hoping for a free burger, ice cream, or drink. I always assumed that the "big prizes" were lies anyways, but a free burger is a free burger, even if it's low quality :D
Same. The free food prizes were always my favorite part. My mom and I used to collect them and eventually we'd have enough that we'd basically just get an entire free meal.
My father worked at the printing press during this time period. I spoke with the guys that were in McMillions (the guys from the printing press) at my dad's funeral. This event not only ripped off the customers and McDonald's, but it helped cause the closing of the printing press putting all the employees out of work.
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The most amazing part of this story was not Jerry, as I can imagine someone with access doing this, especially since he was "above suspicion" to his bosses. The most amazing part is how the marketing company just screwed Canada..just because. No money in it for them, just because they hated Canada for reasons.
Yeah, that was what confused me the most; throughout the video, I was wondering what that was all about, because I honestly just couldn't see any point to it. I mean, there's the "haha, Canadians are buying McDonalds for the contest when they don't have a chance to begin with!" angle. However, seems like plenty of them were figuring out that the contest was rigged against them, which probably ended up losing a fair few sales that they could've gotten just by sending a couple winning tickets up north.
@@dustinrausch5008 it was most likely for a few actual reasons that all come down to it being a cost cutting and ease of logistics measure. 1. Some laws and regulations governing the film industry in Canada differ in major ways from the laws and regulations that govern the film industry in the US. Major productions that film in both the US and Canada have problems dealing with this on a regular basis. it's in the news every now and then when it happens to some popular streaming show or something. Why deal with both sets of laws and regulations if you can just deal with one? The US was/is the bigger market, so if this is a reason why it was done, cutting out Canada is the obvious choice. 2. Dragging a wholeass film crew across the border would have been a pain compared to flying them around the country. If they're working in Canada filming something, they need to have employees with Canadian work visas specific to film, and the workers may even need to be locals depending on the regulations at the time. The marketing company probably would have needed to temp hire a whole Canadian team to go film a Canadian winner or keep one on standby in case a Canadian won... or even less realistically, know for certain that they would have been able to get work visas for all of their required filming personnel that either wouldn't expire for the entire contest duration or could be placed in a fastlane for approval when they are needed. If you've ever tried to get a work visa through a company, you know how long this actually takes, and it took even longer when it all had to be done via mail; most governments hadn't fully embraced the internet for things like visas until the late 2000s. It makes a certain amount of sense in this light. 3. On top of the Canadian tax and employment regulations, American tax and employment regulations would also require the marketing company to file more tax paperwork in the US as well as retain more archival data, which would have cost them extra money. Add more to that cost if they got visas for American employees to go abroad. Again, from a money and logistics standpoint, this totally makes sense as a reason to cut Canada out of the winnings they were contracted by McDonalds to have filmed.
I feel like this hasnt been made into a movie because the sequence of events and Jerry's luck would seem too far fetched if they didn't actually happen
A $50k winner was refused payment because they claimed the ticket in the state they live in. They obtained the ticket when traveling, but McDonalds used some weird reason to refuse. He sued them and won $182k. Big companies are such snakes!
I always thought this was only one-or-two years, not the whole first half of the contest’s lifetime. Also, props for going with McCriminal and resisting a Hamburglar pun.
I remember getting so excited whenever McDonalds did its Monopoly game when I was growing up in the 90s. This is the craziest story and I can't believe I never knew any of this. Excellent work as as usual Kira. I love these documentary style productions of yours.
Interesting video. I used to work in a printing factory in Georgia that printed these game pieces for sticking on cups in the mid 90s. My job was to take the big rolls of tickets and run them through a splitting machine that split them into smaller rolls and also inspect them for anomalies. If we found anomalies, we spliced them out and were supposed to shred them. I know they didn't always get shredded, but everyone knew the big prizes were printed and taken out of the factory by McDonalds. I always wondered how they got placed randomly in stores though. It always sounded pretty sus to me.
The Hamburglar himself would be ashamed. I've loved all of your investigative story videos, but this one truly shined. Fantastic watch! And for what it's worth, I'm glad the children's hospital got to keep the million dollars they got. At least some small good thing came out of that mess.
@@ConernicusRex Ah, yes, because he knew everything through clairvoyance and thus didn't need to research any information to make this video. How silly of me to think otherwise.
@@ConernicusRex It is not story that needs to be original, it is how you present it and retell it. Plus he listed them as a source, which many journalist retellings do as well.
I do remember in the early 2000s, my parents tried collecting those tabs to win an Nintendo 64 for us but they eventually regretted it and said it would've been better to have saved up money than buy all that McDonald's food 😂
Hey Chris, you cook a burger and get a bun, ketchup and mustard for cheaper than McDonalds. Make sure to add the costs of napkins, utility use and any clean up costs for utensils and pans being washed.
I used to go to the McDonald's dumpster after close and take several bags during Monopoly. I'd end up with a stack of free food pieces. People throw away their pieces without checking them all the time. Not a high point for me, but this was a long time ago.
I'm a gardener for local municipality and there's often a lot of picking up litter as part of the job, during the Monopoly events I find myself eating a lot more McDonalds!
I kinda did the same thing. My friends and I would climb into the recycle dumpster in the Kmart parking lot and we'd go through a bunch of Sunday times papers because we found out that they put Monopoly pieces in them as a promotion.
My dad was obsessed with this game. He played every year for as long as I can remember. He passed shortly before Jerry was caught. This one kinda hurt. Kinda feels like Jerry robbed my old man of his chance to win.
Yeah, they did the same thing at a grocery store I used to go to. They even had a monopoly board that had like 16 "prizes" on it and each "prize" required you get 4 tags for it. The contest went on for months, the tellers were literally throwing loads of the monopoly tickets at you in line, and at one point I had 3 out of 4 of all 16 potential prizes on the board. Never got the 4th tag for any of them. Never won anything.
And that is not even needed, had they made the tickets properly. A serial number and keeping track of it would be enough. Even better... having each store have to "activate" each ticket received. So you now can easily see where each ticket is... and if a ticket isn't activated, it means it was stolen. The big prizes can even have an adicional layer of protection by only being able to activate on the stores the system selected for them. Seriously in 3 seconds I came up with a better system... give me 3 hours and I can improve ever further.
@@MateusAntonioBittencourt That's how it's usually done, and probably has been for almost as long as they've been able to track numbers on that scale. I assume they knew about it and rejected it because of the simple fact that it doesn't include watching minimum wage workers pee. Considering they didn't even have tamper proof sealing from the beginning, and didn't even track the seals when they finally got it, I think you spent more time thinking about it than they did
Here in Germany the McD-Monopoly is each year from end of November to begin of January. Over the years they changed it ... first you had 3 stickers on each "big item" like big drinks, big fries and big burgers (not on hamburgers/cheesburgers). Than it was changed to 2 stickers + 1 discount code (like 10 % for your next buy at H&M for at least 40 bucks). And this year they changed it to just ONE sticker per item, and all you get is an alphanumeric code that is only useable in the McD App. The app is only working if you state your name, adress, date of birth and activate the GPS. The only one who wins is McD ... they collect all your valuable data. They turned a nice little game into a big scam. Very sad. I stopped taking part this year. And I know many others who also did.
This year, the moment I saw “Enter the code on the McDonald’s app” I said “anddd that’s the end of McDonald’s monopoly for me” lol. I know enough to know that’s McDonald’s win, not mine.
Slught correction; Simon Marketing didn’t go bankrupt. Instead, thier parent company Cyrk (a gigantic marketing megacorporation at the time) shut down that division as a result of the scandal. In 2003, Cyrk themselves were acquired by the private equity firm Sun Capital Partners in an $8.7 billion leveraged buyout. To anyone who doesn’t what that is, that means that Sun Capital took out a shitload of debt to buy Cyrk and then put that debt on the newly bought Cyrk instead of assuming it themselves. If you’re wondering why the document in the video calls them Simon Worldwide and not Cyrk, it’s because the case went to trial in 2006 and Sun Capital changed the name of the business during a debt restricting a year earlier. Even so, Cyrk struggled with debt for years but, as the 2007 housing crash commenced and with the 2008 Financial Crisis just starting up, Cyrk filed for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy on November 7th 2008.
No correction needed. "In May 2002, Simon Worldwide went into liquidation", That happened prior to any buy out and the events you're speaking of. Liquidation is the company form of bankruptcy. So yes. They went bankrupt.
I remember my dad in the early 2000s saying that the winners were friends and family picked ahead of time and it was all a scam. How close to the truth he was.
its pretty funny when people state a probable fact and get told "thats a conspiracy theory". just the past 6 years in the U.S. almost EVERYTHING the news media called "conspiracy theory" ended up being true. even to find out the media helped HIDE things from the public
An amazing story. I was riveted. I remember the frenzy this generated as a kid- you'd see the little Monopoly stickers everywhere- in peoples cars, kitchens, you name it.
The fact that they already decided what store was going to have the winning ticket seems duplicitous all on it's own. I always assumed that it would have been stuck to whatever random wrapper like the rest of them, wherever it ended up was just chance.
All these sort of competitions work that way. My friend works in the office at the main Walkers factory, and has seen where the top prizes get sent every time they have one of their instant win promotions. Not down to the individual shop but the distribution center meaning they know what city it will be in. They do this to ensure it goes somewhere different each time so it seems more fair to the customers. Also the one distribution center it will never go to is the one at the factory itself because then the prize would end up in the town that's full of Walkers employees, who can't claim it.
It's effing BS, in Australia I worked at one of the telco's and was in charge of graphic design. I was also in charge of generating code tickets so when a customer gets a contract, in-exchange they get a ticket. Was speaking with marketing and they said not to give certain stores winning tickets...... FUCKING BS
Well, they kind of have to do it that way when you think about it - these tickets could easily get lost or thrown away. I can’t fault them for not having $1 million tickets randomly mixed in with others. We’d like to think this is like Powerball, but McDonald’s just can’t have the controls in place to make a truly random system work.
It’s insane the amount of times these type of stories end the way they do because the geniuses involved snitch on themselves via bragging to anyone who’d listen lol
Read almost a full-length book about this case. My take-away was that basically SImon Marketing blew it by not having any checks or balances in place to make sure the one guy in charge of the winning tickets wasn't passing them around to friends. Which is what happened. Even if everything had been legit, the odds of winning were impossible and I knew that. But I still felt pissed when all this came out over the times wasted just peeling them off the side of the cup.
*Kind of unrelated* A couple weeks ago, there was a story of a guy who thought he was getting a good deal on a used HD TV. He bought it, took it home and turned it on to discover it was a McDonald's menu.
Important to note that McDonalds is not culpable. They did, in fact, pay out the winnings. Also, McDonalds would consider the money written off before it was "won" by anyone, so they'd have no incentive to check the validity of the winner.
Right, they even paid out the winnings almost twice! But although security, the system, and validating the winner was up to Simon Marketing, McDonald's was the contractant so of course it would have the *incentive* to ensure fair play. That said, "The McDonald's Monopoly Scam" sounds like it was McDonald's scamming people when in reality it was Mcdonald's (and the people) who were scammed.
@@tumetal to be fair, they could've made better system of protection. One that won't allow peeking into tickets beforehand, but still able to track counters of winnings. Like batches of 1000-1'000'000 tickets each. Each ticket have batch number, date and prize written on ticket and covered with antitamper, non see through seal on top. Maybe also barcode for big winnings? Then database tracks that there is that much of winners for each prize in that batch and logs it on server. After that several batches get mix up. And defined number of tickets from them gets delivered to each McD. It will prevent people from separating worth tickets from unworth ones (especially as they don't know which ones are good value ones within batch). As well as rerolls for big prizes to get them in any specific place. When there is winner for noticable prize, ticket gets checked through batch, date or barcode on amount of claim repeats. That will prevent completely faking tickets, claiming duplicate tickets, as well as making random ticket impersonate higher value one through sorts of corruption...
Nah, they are culpable on the relolling Canada bit. I expect a class action lawsuit or some sort of punishment from Canadian regulators that regulate prizes/lotteries in Canada. If they are advertising a prize they must give equal and fair chance. If not they or their reps are in violation of the law and at the very least guilty of false advertising. Yes it can be argued that "someone else did it" but it's still their responsibility as the sweepstakes sponsor.
As a true crime addict, I watch/listen to so-called "white collar crime" series as a palate cleanser from the more murder-heavy series. I remember when this case broke, and my dad's own non-plussed reaction. He'd talked me out of focusing on the contest years before, and now I knew what he'd already guessed- you never win the lottery. Any game of chance with a big potential payout is rigged from the start.
People like Jerry are the reason barely anyone trusts Lotteries. I'd say "Maybe people would trust Lotteries if they were government-controlled!", but that'd make me laugh even more at the thought of how many corrupt, pocket-bloated politicians would rub their cold, twig-like demon hands at the opportunity for cash.
I know multiple people that have won the lottery. I know a guy who won 1m, wasn't rigged. I know a person who won 3.2m, wasn't rigged. I don't think it's rigged.
I'm a Canadian and ALWAYS get rooked by this contest. However,long ago I resigned myself to simply hoping for some free food. I have won the rinky-dink prize,the non food one of which there are tons. I always toss it(it's something useless to me) or give it away. The big winners---when they advertize them---are NEVER EVEN from my part of the country. Everyone who plays keenly ends up needing the same stamps. I found this out years ago online and by talking with one of my siblings. I think it's best to not play. And you'll save money.
The man claims he wanted to be an officer, but what he really wanted was to live a life high on power, authority, and affluence. He just thought being a decorated officer was his best shot but he found out that running a crime ring brought him everything he actually wanted.
@@LyreozMC man admits in front of everyone he'd be a criminal if given the chance and that he thinks lying to people to steal hard earned money from them is a thing he'd do
I was expecting this story would’ve been that McDonald’s never printed winning tickets, or they all went to friends of McDonald’s employees or something. While that wasn’t too far from the truth, it’s kinda refreshing to find out that once the evil corporation wasn’t the cause. I only hazily remembered McDonald’s Monopoly, as an old promotion I read on the sides of happy meal boxes, but this was a really good story.
I remember playing this game years ago and half-jokingly saying “I’m pretty sure this is rigged”. Like Damn, I guess I was right but I didn’t think it was THIS crazy!
Yes you was right. Kinda makes you wonder about the UK national lottery🤔 I don’t by lottery tickets anymore. As an outsider looking in, its frightening seeing the long lines of people waiting to buy lottery tickets looking like junkies lining up to buy crack.
Recently played the game because it claimed to be a "1 in 5 chance to win!*" I was also traveling across Canada at the time so I thought I'd get a better chance by participating in different cities. I ate from McDonald's every day for nearly a month and won nothing. Not even the lamer prizes. All I had to show for my efforts was an added 10lbs. Never playing again after that. Don't gamble, kids.
It's funny because from 2007 to 2010, I've worked at a recycling company in quebec, which is located in Canada and during these 3 years I've seen these mcdonalds cups all the time and alot of people wouldn't pick the ticket off the cups and cardboard box burger. I was shoving those ticket in a ziploc bags and had somewhere around 400 of those each game event release. I was always missing the same location in each different district of the monopoly game, each year but had and insane amount of replica from the other location per district. Shit felt like it was rigged so today, I don't even bother getting those ticket when I get a meal
Whoever named this case at the FBI has no sense of humor. I would've called it Operation "Don't Pass Go". Very fun and informative video. It's insane to think there weren't a system of checks and balances in place for this sorta thing and that they relied on the honesty of one guy for most of it.
Uh, the purpose of an operation name in the military and law enforcement not having a connection to what's actually going on in the operation is so that the agents can mention it in a less-than-secure location and not raise the suspicions of other people around them who shouldn't be in the loop, especially the targets/suspects themselves.
@@ThEjOkErIsWiLd00 your explanation makes a lot of sense and I can say I learned something from it, but probably not obvious info to most regular folks; the "uhh ACKSHUALLY" part at the beginning seems a bit unnecessary
@@Echidneys Yeah, I tend to correct people and I don’t use “Um or um actually” I just explain why they were misinformed and I don’t assume that they were just lying because that’s kinda rude. More people learn when you gently correct them because you don’t make them feel dumb. I like learning in general and know a lot about niche topics and am always looking to explain random stuff to other people.
Operation Final Answer is actually a very clever name. It's a reference to the show "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" with the host Regis Philbin's famous catch phrase, "Is that your final answer?" I think they had more of a sense of humor than you give them credit for. ;)
@@AleksandarBell sorry but most people have shown that they cannot learn unless being humiliated at the same time. a few bad apples spoiled it for all of us, now we all gotta deal with all the "uhs" and "ums" that pain you so.
This was an absolutely wild ride. I used to be hooked on the McDonald's Monopoly. Sad to think I never had a chance because of the greedy people who oversaw the event...
Lol you actually thought a multi million dollar company was gonna give you a million for possibly only the price of a large drink loooool they aren’t gonna give you ten dollars let alone a million that’s like expecting more then a dollar raise you best be exited about that dollar cause it could be 10 cents every six months they don’t need to give you more then a 10 cent raise legally I’m pretty sure they legally never have to give you raises don’t ever think a company worth billions will ever care about you a single poor person you would have to be worth millions for them to care about you it’s only logical can’t stay rich and productive helping or teaching people you just bring in people that know what their doing that’ll make you money
I always just assumed they were printing low numbers of one of the monopoly colour sets. I also regularly would see people selling "legit" ones on ebay, including the dark blue for hundreds of thousands, but the common dark blue for like £50.
This reminds me a a smaller scam, where brand new cars and $10,000 was won weekly/ monthly for many years, but the same family name was wayyy tooo often the winner (friends with other names also won) . Blacktown Workers Club, Sydney, Australia. The guy that did the draws from the barrel would often take quite a while to "find" the ticket. I remember one night in particular, where I was at the monthly draw, with plenty of entries and was feeling very unwell, but you had to be there to claim the prize, so I waited with the other hundreds/ potentially thousand victims, that had spent a lot of money there that night, waiting for the draw. The usual guy was doing the draw and spent what seemed like 10 minutes to grab a "random" ticket. The crowd was getting very loud and asking why it took so long to grab the "random" ticket, but no one caught on........... even I used to go past the barrel and wonder why there was so much sticky tape residue INSIDE the barrel , but no one caught on..... years later a mate joked about the friends he had introduced me to, won so much at the club because they were related to the main guy that demanded to do the draws himself and how they used sticky tape to tape one chosen ticket to the inside of the barrel.... which made it click why one draw too k way too long to find a random ticket.... he couldn't find the taped one.... they still probably have, or even use the same barrels. Such an obvious scam that went on for years..... apparently the picker was caught sticking the winner to the barrel and was quietly fired, so the public would remain in the dark. ...... but re rolling for Canada is understandable ey.
@@zxKAOS1 you wanna know a trick that will help you win raffle drawings? Assuming you can drop your own tickets into the bucket; bend them up to make creases. They won’t be flat anymore and the person drawing will likely grab it because it feels different. Not foolproof of course, but it does help.
I worked for Wells Fargo Alarm Services and both Dittler Brothers and Simon marketing were our customers. Jerry was my contact there and I met with him quite often. He was always very nice and I was shocked when he was arrested and everything came out
I honestly thought this was gonna be a completely different story. I remember a few years back people talking about how it wasnt possible to get all the tickets to fill in the whole board. Like certain tickets you could only get in certain states.
I've only ever seen two stories of cheats that really caught my eye and were captivating. The first was the Press Your Luck winner Michael Larson - who some would say didn't cheat, he just figured out the system. The other is this guy. Well made video!
In the late 80s the prize was something like 10k and my mom managed to complete the grand prize set. When she took them to the store manager he told her to sign across the pieces. Eventually she got a letter from McD corporate letting her know she was disqualified because she was supposed to sign each piece individually.
what kind of deal is that anyway? lol.Signing the pieces correctly or else disqualified? lol. If there was an exchange of money from a winning, I'd expect to sign real paperwork, and have to go get it notarized. Which is exactly what I've had to do to claim an Ipad I won few years ago. She could have signed them correctly and they'd still try to say the signatures dont match. Like what is that BS way of claiming the prize? lol
@@chasejackson7248 It was the 2 blue pieces. Doesn't matter in any case cause nothing came of it. But her excitement, and then later, her frustration and disgust were all quite memorable. Just is what it is 🤷♂️
Really sorry to hear that for your mum. To think tickets were bought and cashed out so easily, but someone who should have won had to still jump through more hoops, as they say, to try to get that money 💰 then she makes a mistake and is denied. It feels like there was more than just the dodgy security guard at Simon Marketing involved in this scam, they just made more scamifications within McDonald's on it!!
I once filled two complete gameboards (perks of working in a cinema - you'd be shocked at how few people take their stickers, plus it was the closest place to eat when we closed at 1am) - except I could never complete any section, was one short across the whole thing
Back in the late 00s, I remember I was missing one piece for something like $100,000. Can't remember the amount, but it was one of the bigger ones. And a few months later, when I told one of my closest friends about it while he was driving us out to pick up some pizzas to play some Halo, his eyes got huge. At the next stop light, he reached into his glove box, pulled out a little white envelope, and pulled out the pieces he had. Yep, we could have won the $100,000 and split it. Needless to say, we spent the rest of the day laughing, pondering what we would have done with the money, and being super disappointed.
@SammEater maybe We just know that McDonalds is basically intentionally making it impossible for employees to figure out what is wrong with the machine so they can give favors to the supplier of said machines in the form of "repair fees" where they force each franchisee to spend some money hiring unneeded repairman for stuff they really could have done themselves
@@SammEater Yes pretty much. They "broken machines" were used as a way to have the only repair company allowed to work on them to make immense amount of money. The machines were never really broke. They would just stop working and show an error code and the fix was always simple but could only be done by this repair company.
What's really amazing to me is how McDonald's corporate sponsorship of nearly all forms of mass media has kept this story largely out of the mainstream press while it was happening. I can recall hearing the odd story now and then about the Monopoly game and some kind of controversy but this never rose to the level of awareness that it would in today's internet world.
@@robd1329 It was well documented and all over the news back in 2001 when the story first broke. It just took you 20 years to pay attention to it. But it probably didn't help that the day after the trial started, 9/11 happened in New York which over-shadowed everything that happened that year.
Yeah but that's like how no one's talking about the 3 illegal Chinese police stations the FBI found were established in the U.S., ones confirmed in New York, the other 2 are unknown and we've known since at least the beginning of November last year, why not more media attention? Why is this not regarded as an invasion by foreign powers? HOW IS THERE ALMOST NO COVERAGE? because the media is ran by the rich, and a lot of those companies have interest overseas...these things happen because the people in power allow it to happen, just like Epsteins murder, I wonder who will be Suicided as a scapegoat next
There's an odd kind of balance or symmetry to the fact that those most likely to scam or cheat are also those most likely to be too greedy and shortsighted to stop scamming while they are ahead. If Jerry had just cashed out early and went back to being a trusted security guard he would have gotten away with it but greed pushed him ever onward.
The problem with your logic is that we only ever hear about the scammers who are so greedy that they get caught. The number of people who stop at a smart point is completely unknown. Basically the fact the we only ever see the ones who get caught gives us the impression that ALL scammers are too greedy for their own good
@@tannerarmstrong1496 Precisely, there are probably way more scams running that we will never know about because the people doing it are smart enough to stop.
@@tannerarmstrong1496 I know one such story of someone who carried out a scam for years, but nearly got caught once, and saw his luck was going to to run out so quit while he was ahead. You probably heard of Charles Ingram the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire cheat. One guy also admitted to cheating before him, but he carried out his operation in a much more clever way and only went up to £125k to not raise suspicion.
I remember I work at McDonald’s in the 80s and when they used to have that monopoly game they thought they were slick they would hide the game pieces in a box marked plastic forks. We took one home with over 5000 pieces in it only one of them was a one dollar winner.
@@LD-hy1ps If you go in with the mentality that you're supposed to win something, I'm sorry but you're stupid. You're buying McDonalds food. The tickets are just an extra and you think you're going to win anything special from it for doing absolutely nothing but buying food? The one and only time I went this year with my friends and I won 6 chicken McNuggets for free. Good enough for me, I got free food for doing absolutely nothing. It's bad if they don't have the prizes they actually claim but the chances of you even winning them is stupidly low, I don't know how you think just you and your friends will get something big when there are billions of visitors worldwide every month.
I love how McDonald's has more rules and regulations to prevent cheating in their Monopoly game, than Congress does regarding insider trading for themselves.
@@rodrigorodriguez509 , amazing they were "caught red-handed", and yet none of you buffoons can produce a single shred of evidence, every one of the moronic conspiracies has been debunked, Trump lost over 60 court cases, and even lost multiple recounts despite the GOP hiring questionable companies like Cyber Ninjas to do it. Sorry your feefees got hurt, but this is just pathetic. Either take the L, or provide some proof.
To put it simply, as an ex McDonald's employee I've never heard of a single person winning any of the big prizes. Yes, I may have merely been a crew member but if someone won, you'd think we'd hear about it
@@grahamhill676 if you're employed by McDonald's at any level, you can't participate in the game, can't speak for others who do take them but there's little incentive for that much risk to steal those stickers and the free food isn't "free", you've already spent a bunch of money on food. Employees get half off and employers still make profits on their meals so when you buy a bunch of food at regular price then your "free" food has already been paid
@@helixmusic4279 You don't get free food on your breaks? We do in the UK, and whilst we can't partake in the game officially, there's nothing stopping us from peeling off our stickers and giving them to friends and family, which is what we all do here. The big prizes are quite clearly lies, because staff who have got like 4 or 5 stickers a day 5 days a week (multiply this by thousands of employees...) don't get any winning stickers. It's quite clearly a farce.
@@grahamhill676 I'm in Canada and no, we don't get free food on our breaks, not outright anyways as it's usually up to a decent manager going out their way to reward their crew. As far as my partner and I've experienced here as we've both worked at McDonald's at different times qnd places, managers here peel off the stickers on employee meals bought on work hours but not if you come through on your own time and that's from corporate so...
@@helixmusic4279 Yikes. We have a point system for breaks...So we can have a small meal. Kinda shit you guys don't get that as I assumed this was the norm.
I had always heard as a Canadian that the prize was rigged for Americans only growing up, that the winning ticket didn't even exist in Canada but everyone thought McDick's made it that way. I pretty much just get jazzed for the free meal ones now and sometimes people will trade me meal ones for the vehicle cash prize ones. Sometimes I just give those away to someone if they want it because I knew I'd never win and just toss 'em. Unfortunately, none of my trades or giveaways worked out for my friends who were trying to collect :/
The competition exists in Australia, there's literally no prize money at all to be won (though on the extremely remote chance you win anything better than a small fries its not worth participating) and the game is impossible to play without downloading the "McApp" for your phone.
Your videos are something else like i've never seen. From the narration to the editing to the script, story line, pacing. Perfection! props to you man, your are now my favorite youtuber making these types of videos, and it's not even close. You've just set the bar too high man.
I read the rules for the monopoly game. Had to rent a warehouse to keep all ten million pages of fine print and, after only ten years, I finally finished reading it and it states in ten million different ways that you don't win but they do.
Really fascinating story. I remember those Monopoly promotions and my brother and I kept a sticker sheet on it once. We both realized the rare tickets that we would never get, but of course we never knew about this behind the scenes. It was too bad.
A very good linear presentation of this story, very good indeed. I saw the doco series 'McMillons' (twice actually) about this very scam, and while it was extremely entertaining and some of the interview pieces were pure gold, it jumped around a lot and I got quite lost in parts. This video really solidified the story for me. Thanks for doing it.
This is amazing. I heard this situation covered before, and they said it was an accountant at Simon Marketing who did it, giving tickets to friends and relatives. Edit: This video is much more detailed, and I believe this one.
Both are true. If you google any of the entities here (Jacobson, Dittler, Simon Marketing), you'll find plenty of articles about this event because it was covered a few years ago in an HBO documentary called McMillions. Jacobson's scheme involved an accountant, and Simon Marketing later actually sued major accounting firms over this.
I had a friend in Maryland who was in line at McDonalds,and he had hesitated to get in line because he was running late for work. He steps back in line and the guy who was now in front of him won a Jeep Cherokee. I think this was in the late 90's. Tough luck.
In 1988, I won its $1000 shopping spree at Sears, which was $1000 in gift certificates. I assure you I did receive that prize. But it was the most that I ever won from the contest.
LIKE ME I DIDN'T FALL FOR THIS OR ANY ONLINE APPS I SEE RIGHT THROUGH BULLSHIT- I BELIEVE NOTHING TILL I KNOW MORE WHEN I FIND OUT IM NEVER WRONG- EVERYTHING IS A LIE
You could send a self addressed stamped envelope with a hand written request and receive two game pieces (so the cost was one stamp per game piece). I figured the odds on the minor prizes and sent off one hundred requests and got 200 game pieces. It worked out to about half-price burgers, fries, and drinks. I was a poor graduate student at the time. Other students would come to my office at lunch time and I would pass out the prizes. Then we would all walk to the Micky Dee's for lunch.
As another Canadian joining in the comments, I too have never heard of anyone winning a real prize other than the "Fries / Hot Beverage / Cheeseburger" prizes. I try to avoid going any more than I normally would when the Monopoly thing is going on, but will happily go for whatever small amount of free food I've won lol
I worked for McDonald's for the last two years and it was normally working unless 1. It was being cleaned, 2. It went into heat mode, or 3. People just being lazy but it might just be the one I worked at so I wouldn't know
Living in Canada and going to McDonald's dozens of extra times to try to win this game, now that I know it was not possible to win, I should sue McDonald's for the cost of those meals adjusted for inflation.
@@threemar3 it’s not “ripped” from Hulu lol, this information has been out for a long time and videos about it were made long before the Hulu documentary came out
Let's face it KiraTV has found his stride with this new content, he clearly enjoys making it and we clearly love it and unlike the MacDonalds Monopoly it's a winner! This was so good to watch, I've watched the McMillions Documentary and I don't remember them going into as much detail about why Jerry was only giving small returns the way you have here.
Honestly its nice to know they actually printed winning tickets in the first place!
thinking the same thing
They are required to
My thoughts exactly.
I was like "Wait, there actually were winning tickets!?"
@@twlentwo they were also required to have some in Canada
@@twlentwo people are "required" to do a lot of things but dont.
Recently saw a story about a guy in Australia who won a car but Mc Donalds refused to give him the price so they got sued but instead of the car the judgement was a thousand dollars worth of Mc Donald's vouchers. Someone else explained that you would have to cross state lines to even win anything "big". I just don't understand how can this scam legally go on for so long.
when i was younger i was told of a woman winning a car and being denied the car also in australia also only she didnt sue or anything just kinda accepted they are liars
Because the FBI are criminals masquerading as crime fighters.
Probably the guy from 1999, and he was trying to cheat tbh
Ripping people off, is business as usual in the U.S. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
We were ok with Sea Monkeys, but not Established Titles.
We are a fickle bunch 😂
I remember a story on TV about a village fete where one stall let you win a brand new Jaguar if you did something crazy (roll a 6 on 12 dice all at once or something). A nearby dealership donated the car just to have on the stand, never thinking anyone would win. A 10 year old kid rocked up 10 minutes later and got it first go.
My mom won $1000 and when she tried to claim it they tried saying it was fake! The manager actually threatened to call the police and even tried to confiscate the winning monopoly piece. My dad was so mad he went inside and caused a scene. My dad was like I think your the one that’s trying to scam us. Guaranteed that guy was trying to pull a fast one on my mom so he could cash in the prize himself. He ended up actually calling the police and when they arrived, the cop even thought the manager was sketchy! The cop told us to call McDonald’s customer service to see if they can confirm the winning prize is indeed real. The moment the cop said that sentence. The manager immediately started sweating bullets. Even said “actually you guys should come in tomorrow
Morning when our GM is here.” Lmfao the cop was like why didn’t you just say that from the beginning? Long story short, we called the customer service they were able to look up the number and confirm it was legit. He was super embarrassed. We left. That was that lol.
It was the McDonald’s right near our apt complex. We didn’t see the manager anymore after that day 😅pretty sure he was fired
Wow!. What a story. Glad it worked out.
Hahaa what a fool all over a thousand dollars which I imagine he would of earned in two weeks of working
Much like Google gift cards that never work
It’s nice to hear that someone actually won some money. We had no money growing up for extras like going to McD’s but my mom would wait until the Monopoly game came out and then we would go and we would actually want to win the food so we could go get it at other times. So my mom would save for that time of the year and then she would keep the winning food tickets for the fries and breakfast sandwiches and then it would be cheaper for us to go at other times. I think it’s really cool that your mom won the money. I’m really glad that she didn’t give her ticket to the shady manger.
McDonald’s employees, former employees, and relatives of McDonald’s employees are not allowed to cash out the pieces. He could’ve taken it from you, but there’s no way in hell he would’ve been able to cash it out himself. He would have had to conspire with a friend to cash it out
How do they not notice a head security officer suddenly blow huge amounts of money and such a massive life style change. There is a level of incompetence hiding underneath all of that.
Like everything else ya see today, just pay off those whom are on to your scam
They where simultaneously paying for him to take 5 star trips and dinner and a pay raise. He was probably spending on a company account so it was normal
He had mob connections so laundering the money would be easy, plus he was Head Of Security would easy clear $100 000. They didn't know tickets were being stolen so no reason to suspect him
@flippy5118 absolutely. Lots of jobs have critical sensitive positions that require serious background checks and continuous monitoring. Often for high value efforts, life/safety, and high security needs. Think of banks, financial institutions, internet security/encryption organizations, transportation industries. If companies didn't look into their employees you'd be in a dangerous world full of scams, theft, and dangerous equipment + risk to your own safety. With as much money put in this guy's trust they should have had multiple levels of checks and multi person security.
I get investigated every year for my work and need to report all finances and legal activity/travel.
Wait until you hear about the security from the actual lottery lol
I worked in a mcd back in the 2000s and i remember a manager was fired because he got caught stealing sleeves of monopoly cups, also employees will once in a while peel them off. It was really hard to control. I hated when it was monopoly time in mcdonalds
Worked in 1997 - what you saw was nothing new and happened in our store too. I worked during Beanie Babies. It was...definitely interesting.
Ohh beanie babies god the flashbacks ¡¡¡
Worked at mcdees starting in 2009, and my first time dealing with monopoly...man you'd have thought dropping a monopoly cup was the same as shitting on gold. I understood the idea of "now we have to cut this cut up to make sure the pieces can be given to someone" later on, but this video put it in perspective for me more. Honestly, I didn't believe anyone ever actually won the millions, so I just thought "Who cares? It's all fake anyway".
I worked next to a McDonald's for a few years. It was a night shift and whenever I would go during monopoly the staff would have a roll of the stickers that they were peeling off.
Your manager lost their job, but got 10 free small fries and a cheeseburger.. which were essentially free under employment hahahahah
This story took a LOOOONG time to come out because the trial for this whole ordeal just happened to start on 10 September 2001, and the next day the media obviously had other things to cover for the next few years.
McDonald’s literally did 9/11 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I just love how a McDonald’s scam video turned into a 9/11 conspiracy lmao
@@ace-x6m it could be slightly true but uh. theres other better conspiracies :troll:
I feel like your comment comes word for word from another video on this.
I think everyone missed the point. Robbins was simply stating that 9/11 was such a monumental event that this scam got buried in the background. Nobody is dumb enough to think that McDonald’s perpetrated 9/11 to cover this up.
If McDonald’s and associates are able to get away with this for 20 years, just think about what’s going on with the Powerball 😂
@@CallMeGameGirl And then everyone clapped. And Obama was there!
@@danielross2339 wow at least your sarcasm was accurate to the timeline.
I'm waiting for that to come out (about powerball)🙄 thats when we will see riots 😂
Or the corrupt u.s. government!!!
Too many people watching the lottery from the feds to the state.
I nearly died when the mafia guy cashed in the ticket for himself and appeared in the commercial 😂 Like something straight out of a movie... but a great story!!
I always thought it was a rigged scam but I didn't expect this to be the reason why
Oh don't worry about that, there's plenty of stories out, I myself won an xbox, never got it coz it's all to drum up food sales
IKR? It’s the same with our public clearing house. We all know it’s a scam but I wonder if something similar is going on with them too, there was with the cola cap bottle prizes too
Honestly I only ever played to get free French fries on occasion and now I have a wheat allergy so I can't even go to McDonald's any more because of cross contamination so I guess I won't be supporting the franchise any more lmao
Complacency was McD's problem. I guess they keep an eye on things now.
I was a teenager in Canada at the time. I temporarily got foolishly addicted to the game and ate supersize meals every day for months. Bastards. Haven’t eaten that garbage for years.
My mom was oddly obsessed with the Monopoly game when we were kids back in the 90s. She was never a gambler or anything like that, but she hung up the paper Monopoly board and would paste all the little tickets she collected on it. We all hoped we'd win, but as an adult looking back on my mom with three kids and not much money I have a special appreciation of just how much she must have secretly hoped for a winning ticket. To learn that the whole thing was rigged by slimeballs just kinda makes me sad. And why did they not want Canadians to win?
At least you ate a shitload of McDonalds. How's your heart doing?
They used to give out a monopoly game board to attach your pieces to. Honestly the whole thing should have been illegal
@@aaronbrown6266 it's kinda sad, I already told you
@@WhiskeyNixon Agreed. Sorry.
Agree! Greedy awful people!
Im Canadian and I even remember back in the 90’s and early 2000’s wondering “Has anyone ever seen or even heard of a single person winning anything more than a free small fries, burger or drink with this?”.
I’m 35 now and still have yet to hear of any ‘big winners’, so I’ve sort of always known this was nothing but a scam, with the incentive of ‘But there still might be free foooood if you pay for the other foooood 😉’ lol.
Seriously, a good part of my 90's childhood was a lie.
Same here. I had many friends that worked at Mcds in 90s and asked them all if they ever heard of big winnings and they'd never even of medium prize winners in Canada.
Same story.
This is basically how all lotteries make money.
I won the gameboy advance the year they discovered the problem. They sent me a second one.
I live in Canada. I didn't buy extra McDonald's stuff in the faint hope of winning a prize - but I'm pissed to know that when I hopefully peeled off my ticket I had already been scrooed out of ANY chance of winning by the Marketing company.
Many, MANY years ago, McDonalds had a trivia game. This was before smart phones etc. Well the trivia was old-time baseball. Which as a young lad, I STUDIED and MEMORIZED old-time baseball trivia. Well, I happened to be in a McDonalds (ironically after seeing a dentist), and lo and behold, I won. I also helped everybody around me win. (Minor prize, like a Sundae).
I was told to leave the store.
NOW you know why the ice cream machines never work.
You...
B A S T A R D
*RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-*
they don't work because of you. Thanks
@@zac-1 That bastard! ; ;
So you were the hero living long enough to become the villain, all along…! 😱
That sounds like a lawsuit. You did nothing wrong.
I think changing my odds of winning a prize from McDonalds monopoly from "functionally zero" to "actually zero" was worth the story.
I am Canadian so we were actually zero from day 1.
@@default123default2 yeah for you it was only ever the story
Watch earthlings the documentary it's free on youtube.,
What the hell did Simon Marketing have against Canada..?
In the 90s I was a kid living in a family with poverty and a lot of depression. I saw this game as my way to save my family. I carefully saved any game pieces I could get my hands on. I really believed I could do it - rescue my family from their circumstances.
Knowing this guy was scamming us all, just makes me a little extra sad for my younger self.
awe
That's the scam of crappy education in big Democrat cities. Think your only way out is the NFL or a music career, not the way that actually works for millions of people at better schools.
Man I kind of feel sorry for younger you. Mad respect.
@@rodrigorodriguez509 that's the worst advice ever
You could have been rich if you were in the Colombo family and paid a deposit
My mom was obsessed with the monopoly contest at McDonald's in the 90s to the point she'd constantly have us getting super sized everything for the extra prizes. I remember yelling at her that i couldn't eat a big Mac anymore because of it. And to know the entire time there was no chance anyway because some mafia family made a deal with this security guy...i feel attacked
Moral of the story is always assume rich people are money laundering
😂😂
Bro, imagine being a Canadian and literally have zero chance from the very start.
It’s crazy because I actually convinced my family to stop trying to win this shit when I kept continually presenting a theory about how there was no final winning piece (if park place existed board walk didn’t and vice versa the next time) and my theory was that nobody would be able to prove that nobody was winning, McDonalds would just claim the winners didn’t want to be identified. But this is just wild, I don’t get how McDonalds never noticed they had a mole.
Jesus. A mother force-feeding her children McDonald's because of some delusional gambling addiction. There really needs to be some kind of test before people are allowed to have children.
This is honestly one of the most interesting stories I've heard. I can't believe I had never heard about it until this video.
Right? I obviously knew about the McDonald's Monopoly game, but not this. Never know I wanted to hear this so bad.
Same
Macdonalds don't want to ruin their reputation. Too much at stake.
no one mentions the clown was he involved with this?
The biggest lovers are those who eat the mcdonalds.
Placing the money in a McDonalds paper bag is pure poetry.
123rd 👍
Octavia doesnt like McDonalds
"Uneventful life until he moved to Florida. The end."
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To Continued.......its always, To be continued here in Florida.
Should've just taken an action-packed trip to Detroit.
Florida Man Experiences Life Events
I loved the monopoly game, when I was in college and had no money, a medium drink was $1 with one of those monopoly tickets and most of the time I won free fries, a hamburger every now and again!
I never expected to win millions or a car, but man, the free food I won really helped a lot to get through those times!
This game was a non-stop W for me back in the mid 1990s when I was going to University. I'd win something to eat or drink anytime I ate lunch at McDonalds. Couple years later they tightened up the game with fewer winners, so it was no longer a good deal.
Same here, I was only ever into it for the free food and drinks.
Yea it was great in middle and early high school, even a free fries or soda (which obv turned into five) was worth the skate down to get it. Never won any "real" prizes or knew anyone that did, though our town was small back then so maybe they didn't send any of the good pieces here.
@@chlorophil545 yeah the best prize i ever won was a free bigmac. Knew something was up cuz i played all summer and nothing.
@@Utubesanarc One summer of playing and not winning cued you into them stealing the top prizes? I recommend not playing the lottery (to be fair this applies to everyone...)
Yeah same. I would win a free cheeseburger or a drink with almost every meal I purchased. Now I just get the same 5 monopoly property stickers all the time 😔
This should be turned into a TV series. Truth is stranger than fiction.
It is. It’s called McMillions and it’s great.
@@michaelmyers4943 damn, you weren’t lying. Thought you were just trying to be funny. It’s a legit show. Legend mate
I agree with you totally, but an almost trillion dollar company like McDonald’s would never want themselves 25:54 to be a laughingstock in front of Burger King and Wendy’s
Its done. Well done.
@@lesblase3667 hes a legend for telling you about a show thats existed for a while? lol ok
I used to date this girl who lived out in the middle of nowhere. There was this weird gas station on the way that only took cash, but sold lottery tickets. We always won....something. A free drink, a thing of nachos, some jerky, something. Figured out after a while that the tickets were "fake". They were meant to get you to come back to redeem your free pepsi or whatever, but when you came back you also filled up your car, bought some nachos, whatever, and ended up spending more (in cash only remember) than what the gas station lost on the tickets.
I would totally stop there if i was ever out that way again, it was fun. They sold lots of locally made stuff too, like candy, jerky, wine, crafts etc.
Where is this place?
@@richardspillers6282 a few miles outside of Johnstown Pennsylvania. A mythical city in the eastern half of Pennsylvania that not only holds the worlds largest Incline Car Lift but was also almost completely destroyed in a flood 100 years ago after the damn broke.
It's relation to the Mysterious Pittsburgh Clown Gang is unknown.
@@ErikN1982 I'm gonna have check that place out then.
Our little town Bar & Casino, playing a machine earning reward points which you could use for an EASY chance to win a free Prime Rib Dinner for 2 on Saturday nights (Starting 4PM until 10PM, or when Prime Rib is sold-out). That's strategic marketing. They won it by playing machines, get them in on one of the busiest days for dinner and most likely they'll put money back into the machines. Boom. Profit. Most likely outweighing the cost of that free Prime Rib Dinner. Look at layouts of major chain gas stations and grocery stores. If they can get you in the door, the impulse buying sales are ingrained already without the customer already knowing. Want a drink at a gas station? Want a gallon of milk or eggs at the grocery store? You have to walk all the way thru the store, passing all the impulse items. "Sure, I could use a bag of Doritos."
The McDonald's premise wasn't far off from this. No one was winning every single time, but it was not at all uncommon to win a small order of french fries of a medium drink to get you back there.
especially being a lower middle class family, it didn’t help when the recession hit and my family plunged further down. games like this and that other monopoly game they had at shaws were our best friends. at 9 years old one of my favorite times was when i had to open a pile of tickets my mom got when grocery shopping and being tasked with sticking them onto the paper board, hoping that the next one i open would have the last one needed to win literally anything. we also never heard of anyone winning that one either so i wonder if this same type of thing happened.
I was always just hoping for a free burger, ice cream, or drink. I always assumed that the "big prizes" were lies anyways, but a free burger is a free burger, even if it's low quality :D
Same 😅
Same. The free food prizes were always my favorite part. My mom and I used to collect them and eventually we'd have enough that we'd basically just get an entire free meal.
A free medium coffee was always my favourite prize.
But it is a lot of fun to dream too :) especially when you were a highschooler just treating yourself a bit :p
I seemed to always get free fries.
My father worked at the printing press during this time period. I spoke with the guys that were in McMillions (the guys from the printing press) at my dad's funeral. This event not only ripped off the customers and McDonald's, but it helped cause the closing of the printing press putting all the employees out of work.
Wow as thay say the rich at times only get greed yer. cas thay don't whant to have no Mony again. like thos less of thay ripping of. But when it s the poor ripping the rich thay don't now which way to tourn.
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@@countrabricksbuildcraze8916 your spelling needs work good person
@@rogero8443 yes sory on that man my English spelling is not the best. I try my best .add I tryed to do a English cource but did a little of it. And then the teacher seed the cource ain't for me. Perthetic I'm Australia but she would rather teach other that was in the cource that couldn't talk English. Plus in high school I was taken outta my English and math s classes cas I was selected to do tennis lesson s than doing my classes s all cas I came from a Brocken home. Now day s it still effects s me .and it stuft me from getting job s once applied online .I should of sued. Them for. What now effect s me. I don't whant to go on no mental pension till I 80 s age. Cas I a art s creative type and spell like Hip Hop spelling. Lol and ever leve out words or put er .at end of same word s. Add just. Try my best like I seed to spell right ...
@@rogero8443 not everyone is academic and dyslexia etc exists. Mind your own business.
The most amazing part of this story was not Jerry, as I can imagine someone with access doing this, especially since he was "above suspicion" to his bosses. The most amazing part is how the marketing company just screwed Canada..just because. No money in it for them, just because they hated Canada for reasons.
Yeah, that was what confused me the most; throughout the video, I was wondering what that was all about, because I honestly just couldn't see any point to it.
I mean, there's the "haha, Canadians are buying McDonalds for the contest when they don't have a chance to begin with!" angle. However, seems like plenty of them were figuring out that the contest was rigged against them, which probably ended up losing a fair few sales that they could've gotten just by sending a couple winning tickets up north.
yeah, screw Canada. 🤷♂
BLAME CANADA!
@@dustinrausch5008 it was most likely for a few actual reasons that all come down to it being a cost cutting and ease of logistics measure.
1. Some laws and regulations governing the film industry in Canada differ in major ways from the laws and regulations that govern the film industry in the US. Major productions that film in both the US and Canada have problems dealing with this on a regular basis. it's in the news every now and then when it happens to some popular streaming show or something. Why deal with both sets of laws and regulations if you can just deal with one? The US was/is the bigger market, so if this is a reason why it was done, cutting out Canada is the obvious choice.
2. Dragging a wholeass film crew across the border would have been a pain compared to flying them around the country. If they're working in Canada filming something, they need to have employees with Canadian work visas specific to film, and the workers may even need to be locals depending on the regulations at the time.
The marketing company probably would have needed to temp hire a whole Canadian team to go film a Canadian winner or keep one on standby in case a Canadian won... or even less realistically, know for certain that they would have been able to get work visas for all of their required filming personnel that either wouldn't expire for the entire contest duration or could be placed in a fastlane for approval when they are needed.
If you've ever tried to get a work visa through a company, you know how long this actually takes, and it took even longer when it all had to be done via mail; most governments hadn't fully embraced the internet for things like visas until the late 2000s. It makes a certain amount of sense in this light.
3. On top of the Canadian tax and employment regulations, American tax and employment regulations would also require the marketing company to file more tax paperwork in the US as well as retain more archival data, which would have cost them extra money. Add more to that cost if they got visas for American employees to go abroad. Again, from a money and logistics standpoint, this totally makes sense as a reason to cut Canada out of the winnings they were contracted by McDonalds to have filmed.
@@SlavaSesh or maybe someone just wasn't a Celine Dion fan.
I feel like this hasnt been made into a movie because the sequence of events and Jerry's luck would seem too far fetched if they didn't actually happen
A $50k winner was refused payment because they claimed the ticket in the state they live in. They obtained the ticket when traveling, but McDonalds used some weird reason to refuse.
He sued them and won $182k. Big companies are such snakes!
It's funny when you think about it. They fought so they didn't have to pay $50k. Lost and had to pay $182K. Then there was the legal fees.
Yes big companies like McDonald's are snakes which was why I wasn't the least bother that they got scammed for a decade!
🙏AMEN!
What a bunch of cheap asswipes, their a multi million dollar company and they can't be bothered to give $50k?
After watching the movie "The Founder" I don't know why anybody still eats at McDonald's.
I always thought this was only one-or-two years, not the whole first half of the contest’s lifetime.
Also, props for going with McCriminal and resisting a Hamburglar pun.
I'm lovin' this comment.
I remember getting so excited whenever McDonalds did its Monopoly game when I was growing up in the 90s. This is the craziest story and I can't believe I never knew any of this. Excellent work as as usual Kira. I love these documentary style productions of yours.
It was a huge story for a long time, but of course not everyone heard about it.
I loved them in the early 2000s-2010s too.
Same here, and as a Canadian, I'm extra offended.
I probably doubled how often I went to mcdonalds when the monopoly game was going on.
@@Robert08010 🤣
Interesting video. I used to work in a printing factory in Georgia that printed these game pieces for sticking on cups in the mid 90s. My job was to take the big rolls of tickets and run them through a splitting machine that split them into smaller rolls and also inspect them for anomalies. If we found anomalies, we spliced them out and were supposed to shred them. I know they didn't always get shredded, but everyone knew the big prizes were printed and taken out of the factory by McDonalds. I always wondered how they got placed randomly in stores though. It always sounded pretty sus to me.
The Hamburglar himself would be ashamed.
I've loved all of your investigative story videos, but this one truly shined. Fantastic watch! And for what it's worth, I'm glad the children's hospital got to keep the million dollars they got. At least some small good thing came out of that mess.
He just regurgitated the story from mcmillions. Zero investigation was done.
@@ConernicusRex Ah, yes, because he knew everything through clairvoyance and thus didn't need to research any information to make this video. How silly of me to think otherwise.
@@ConernicusRex It is not story that needs to be original, it is how you present it and retell it. Plus he listed them as a source, which many journalist retellings do as well.
I do remember in the early 2000s, my parents tried collecting those tabs to win an Nintendo 64 for us but they eventually regretted it and said it would've been better to have saved up money than buy all that McDonald's food 😂
Class action time
Your parents suck at finances 🤣 McDonald's is so much more expensive than cooking food at home and saving the money for an N64!
Hey Chris, you cook a burger and get a bun, ketchup and mustard for cheaper than McDonalds. Make sure to add the costs of napkins, utility use and any clean up costs for utensils and pans being washed.
That's exactly the problem. The scam wasn't just stealing from McDonald's. They stole from consumers. It's a rigged raffle
Hey at least you had parents that tried. Some parents don't even care
I used to go to the McDonald's dumpster after close and take several bags during Monopoly. I'd end up with a stack of free food pieces. People throw away their pieces without checking them all the time. Not a high point for me, but this was a long time ago.
I'm a gardener for local municipality and there's often a lot of picking up litter as part of the job, during the Monopoly events I find myself eating a lot more McDonalds!
Did it seem like people threw away pieces more often towards the end of the game?
@@magetaaaaaa It seemed pretty consistent throughout to me.
Fitting username
I kinda did the same thing. My friends and I would climb into the recycle dumpster in the Kmart parking lot and we'd go through a bunch of Sunday times papers because we found out that they put Monopoly pieces in them as a promotion.
My dad was obsessed with this game. He played every year for as long as I can remember. He passed shortly before Jerry was caught. This one kinda hurt. Kinda feels like Jerry robbed my old man of his chance to win.
Yeah, they did the same thing at a grocery store I used to go to. They even had a monopoly board that had like 16 "prizes" on it and each "prize" required you get 4 tags for it. The contest went on for months, the tellers were literally throwing loads of the monopoly tickets at you in line, and at one point I had 3 out of 4 of all 16 potential prizes on the board. Never got the 4th tag for any of them. Never won anything.
That makes me wonder if Simon Marketing was behind that promotion as well...
Sorry Tom, they probably thought you were Canadian.
If you are talking about Slaveway, I was there for that in the same scenario and can confirm, that shit was TOTALLY rigged.
@@Lahnmohr that's so offensive, I'd punch em in the mouth!
Acme?
Oh man, that image of minimum wage employees being watched in the bathroom because they're producing things worth millions of dollars. Classic.
Then it’s the higher wage employee actually stealing it. 🥴
And that is not even needed, had they made the tickets properly. A serial number and keeping track of it would be enough.
Even better... having each store have to "activate" each ticket received. So you now can easily see where each ticket is... and if a ticket isn't activated, it means it was stolen. The big prizes can even have an adicional layer of protection by only being able to activate on the stores the system selected for them.
Seriously in 3 seconds I came up with a better system... give me 3 hours and I can improve ever further.
@@MateusAntonioBittencourt That's how it's usually done, and probably has been for almost as long as they've been able to track numbers on that scale.
I assume they knew about it and rejected it because of the simple fact that it doesn't include watching minimum wage workers pee.
Considering they didn't even have tamper proof sealing from the beginning, and didn't even track the seals when they finally got it, I think you spent more time thinking about it than they did
Gives me flashbacks of having to walk through metal detectors and spending 5of our 15 minute breaks being searched at Amazon warehouses😭😂
@@MateusAntonioBittencourt your ideas would increase the cost of each individual ticket by a seriously significant amount.
Here in Germany the McD-Monopoly is each year from end of November to begin of January. Over the years they changed it ... first you had 3 stickers on each "big item" like big drinks, big fries and big burgers (not on hamburgers/cheesburgers). Than it was changed to 2 stickers + 1 discount code (like 10 % for your next buy at H&M for at least 40 bucks). And this year they changed it to just ONE sticker per item, and all you get is an alphanumeric code that is only useable in the McD App. The app is only working if you state your name, adress, date of birth and activate the GPS. The only one who wins is McD ... they collect all your valuable data.
They turned a nice little game into a big scam. Very sad. I stopped taking part this year. And I know many others who also did.
Uninstall that app...and others not needed
This year, the moment I saw “Enter the code on the McDonald’s app” I said “anddd that’s the end of McDonald’s monopoly for me” lol.
I know enough to know that’s McDonald’s win, not mine.
Slught correction; Simon Marketing didn’t go bankrupt. Instead, thier parent company Cyrk (a gigantic marketing megacorporation at the time) shut down that division as a result of the scandal. In 2003, Cyrk themselves were acquired by the private equity firm Sun Capital Partners in an $8.7 billion leveraged buyout. To anyone who doesn’t what that is, that means that Sun Capital took out a shitload of debt to buy Cyrk and then put that debt on the newly bought Cyrk instead of assuming it themselves. If you’re wondering why the document in the video calls them Simon Worldwide and not Cyrk, it’s because the case went to trial in 2006 and Sun Capital changed the name of the business during a debt restricting a year earlier. Even so, Cyrk struggled with debt for years but, as the 2007 housing crash commenced and with the 2008 Financial Crisis just starting up, Cyrk filed for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy on November 7th 2008.
No correction needed. "In May 2002, Simon Worldwide went into liquidation", That happened prior to any buy out and the events you're speaking of. Liquidation is the company form of bankruptcy. So yes. They went bankrupt.
@lorddrayvon1426
Uhm, Liquidation = Bankruptcy
I remember my dad in the early 2000s saying that the winners were friends and family picked ahead of time and it was all a scam.
How close to the truth he was.
Did your dad know my dad? 'Cause he said the same thing.
It was someones friends and families though. 🤣
its pretty funny when people state a probable fact and get told "thats a conspiracy theory". just the past 6 years in the U.S. almost EVERYTHING the news media called "conspiracy theory" ended up being true. even to find out the media helped HIDE things from the public
@@Falkenhorst2000 same dad, different family.
He was right, but for the wrong reason!
An amazing story. I was riveted. I remember the frenzy this generated as a kid- you'd see the little Monopoly stickers everywhere- in peoples cars, kitchens, you name it.
The fact that they already decided what store was going to have the winning ticket seems duplicitous all on it's own. I always assumed that it would have been stuck to whatever random wrapper like the rest of them, wherever it ended up was just chance.
All these sort of competitions work that way. My friend works in the office at the main Walkers factory, and has seen where the top prizes get sent every time they have one of their instant win promotions. Not down to the individual shop but the distribution center meaning they know what city it will be in. They do this to ensure it goes somewhere different each time so it seems more fair to the customers. Also the one distribution center it will never go to is the one at the factory itself because then the prize would end up in the town that's full of Walkers employees, who can't claim it.
Yeah they just kinda glossed over that. Like wtf. It was probably never in poor neighborhoods either.
It's effing BS, in Australia I worked at one of the telco's and was in charge of graphic design. I was also in charge of generating code tickets so when a customer gets a contract, in-exchange they get a ticket. Was speaking with marketing and they said not to give certain stores winning tickets...... FUCKING BS
Well, they kind of have to do it that way when you think about it - these tickets could easily get lost or thrown away. I can’t fault them for not having $1 million tickets randomly mixed in with others. We’d like to think this is like Powerball, but McDonald’s just can’t have the controls in place to make a truly random system work.
@@joeterp5615 why would that be a problem for them? That just means they wouldn't have to pay out the prize money.
I just found this channel and I am hooked! Thank you for all the stories and effort that goes into all of this. 👍❤👍
It’s insane the amount of times these type of stories end the way they do because the geniuses involved snitch on themselves via bragging to anyone who’d listen lol
The more people get involved the higher the risk of getting caught.
The geniuse didnt snitch the customers did this is no difernt than a druggy turning in their dealer by braging about having drugs on social media
Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead -- Ben Franklin
Read almost a full-length book about this case. My take-away was that basically SImon Marketing blew it by not having any checks or balances in place to make sure the one guy in charge of the winning tickets wasn't passing them around to friends. Which is what happened.
Even if everything had been legit, the odds of winning were impossible and I knew that. But I still felt pissed when all this came out over the times wasted just peeling them off the side of the cup.
No, the take-away was McDonald's. Read it again and pay attention.
It’s likely no one cared who got the prizes as long as they kept getting the contracts.
*Kind of unrelated*
A couple weeks ago, there was a story of a guy who thought he was getting a good deal on a used HD TV. He bought it, took it home and turned it on to discover it was a McDonald's menu.
Important to note that McDonalds is not culpable. They did, in fact, pay out the winnings. Also, McDonalds would consider the money written off before it was "won" by anyone, so they'd have no incentive to check the validity of the winner.
Right, they even paid out the winnings almost twice! But although security, the system, and validating the winner was up to Simon Marketing, McDonald's was the contractant so of course it would have the *incentive* to ensure fair play. That said, "The McDonald's Monopoly Scam" sounds like it was McDonald's scamming people when in reality it was Mcdonald's (and the people) who were scammed.
I remember how they dealt with the missing prize money. I wish i had been in a store when they were giving away money
Yep, the title is super-misleading. The game is absolutely not a "scam."
@@tumetal to be fair, they could've made better system of protection.
One that won't allow peeking into tickets beforehand, but still able to track counters of winnings.
Like batches of 1000-1'000'000 tickets each.
Each ticket have batch number, date and prize written on ticket and covered with antitamper, non see through seal on top. Maybe also barcode for big winnings?
Then database tracks that there is that much of winners for each prize in that batch and logs it on server.
After that several batches get mix up. And defined number of tickets from them gets delivered to each McD.
It will prevent people from separating worth tickets from unworth ones (especially as they don't know which ones are good value ones within batch). As well as rerolls for big prizes to get them in any specific place.
When there is winner for noticable prize, ticket gets checked through batch, date or barcode on amount of claim repeats. That will prevent completely faking tickets, claiming duplicate tickets, as well as making random ticket impersonate higher value one through sorts of corruption...
Nah, they are culpable on the relolling Canada bit. I expect a class action lawsuit or some sort of punishment from Canadian regulators that regulate prizes/lotteries in Canada. If they are advertising a prize they must give equal and fair chance. If not they or their reps are in violation of the law and at the very least guilty of false advertising. Yes it can be argued that "someone else did it" but it's still their responsibility as the sweepstakes sponsor.
Just imagine if he sent that winning $1million to the hospital and they shredded it thinking it was junk mail.
well I had one of the million dollar tickets so i'm sure he didn't do this every year
@@issac11111 No you didn't.
@@vinchinzo594 yes i did
haha, if they got the kind of junk mail that we get emailed today i wouldn't blame them XD there was junk back then but not to today's level
@@issac11111 You are absolutely 100% lying.
As a true crime addict, I watch/listen to so-called "white collar crime" series as a palate cleanser from the more murder-heavy series. I remember when this case broke, and my dad's own non-plussed reaction. He'd talked me out of focusing on the contest years before, and now I knew what he'd already guessed- you never win the lottery. Any game of chance with a big potential payout is rigged from the start.
People like Jerry are the reason barely anyone trusts Lotteries.
I'd say "Maybe people would trust Lotteries if they were government-controlled!", but that'd make me laugh even more at the thought of how many corrupt, pocket-bloated politicians would rub their cold, twig-like demon hands at the opportunity for cash.
The house always wins.
Yep! When i was a kid in the early 90s i remember my mom telling me that it was a scam lol. Shalom! 🕊🕎
I know multiple people that have won the lottery. I know a guy who won 1m, wasn't rigged. I know a person who won 3.2m, wasn't rigged. I don't think it's rigged.
@@hornby396 So are you feeling lucky?
I'm a Canadian and ALWAYS get rooked by this contest. However,long ago I resigned myself to simply hoping for some free food. I have won the rinky-dink prize,the non food one of which there are tons. I always toss it(it's something useless to me) or give it away. The big winners---when they advertize them---are NEVER EVEN from my part of the country. Everyone who plays keenly ends up needing the same stamps. I found this out years ago online and by talking with one of my siblings. I think it's best to not play. And you'll save money.
Primarily ripped off were other Canadian restaurants who lost business due to people eating at McD's out of the false hopes of winning this contest.
The man claims he wanted to be an officer, but what he really wanted was to live a life high on power, authority, and affluence. He just thought being a decorated officer was his best shot but he found out that running a crime ring brought him everything he actually wanted.
Say what you will about him, but the man's kind of a genius, I would've done the same tbh
So he wanted to be an officer... you just described what 99% of them want to be an officer for.
@@prettyevil6662000 I don't subscribe to your ACAB propaganda, so move along.
@@LyreozMC man admits in front of everyone he'd be a criminal if given the chance and that he thinks lying to people to steal hard earned money from them is a thing he'd do
@@__-fm5cz Making easy money by stealing from greedy corporations is based and red pilled
I was expecting this story would’ve been that McDonald’s never printed winning tickets, or they all went to friends of McDonald’s employees or something. While that wasn’t too far from the truth, it’s kinda refreshing to find out that once the evil corporation wasn’t the cause. I only hazily remembered McDonald’s Monopoly, as an old promotion I read on the sides of happy meal boxes, but this was a really good story.
This is much better than that McMillions documentary that unnecessarily stretched the story out to 4 hour episodes
I remember playing this game years ago and half-jokingly saying “I’m pretty sure this is rigged”. Like Damn, I guess I was right but I didn’t think it was THIS crazy!
Yes you was right. Kinda makes you wonder about the UK national lottery🤔 I don’t by lottery tickets anymore. As an outsider looking in, its frightening seeing the long lines of people waiting to buy lottery tickets looking like junkies lining up to buy crack.
Recently played the game because it claimed to be a "1 in 5 chance to win!*" I was also traveling across Canada at the time so I thought I'd get a better chance by participating in different cities. I ate from McDonald's every day for nearly a month and won nothing. Not even the lamer prizes. All I had to show for my efforts was an added 10lbs. Never playing again after that. Don't gamble, kids.
Definitely get your blood work done too after that
@@stevejohnson978 Way ahead of yah 😂
I've gotten free drinks,fries &/or sandwiches from playing the monopoly game & i only went to one mcdonalds a few times
@@oldoutlet6946 I'm gonna gamble now because you said that :D
I’ve won food prizes at different McDonald’s locations in Canada before but nothing bigger. Sometimes I would get free fries or a free drink
It's funny because from 2007 to 2010, I've worked at a recycling company in quebec, which is located in Canada and during these 3 years I've seen these mcdonalds cups all the time and alot of people wouldn't pick the ticket off the cups and cardboard box burger. I was shoving those ticket in a ziploc bags and had somewhere around 400 of those each game event release.
I was always missing the same location in each different district of the monopoly game, each year but had and insane amount of replica from the other location per district.
Shit felt like it was rigged so today, I don't even bother getting those ticket when I get a meal
It's amazing how often these criminals are caught due to their own egos.
They never seem to be satisfied with getting away with a decent sum of money.
Not never, since those who can control their ego are not caught...
Why would I want a decent amount when I could have an obscene amount?
@@james-michaelrobson287 Sure but the risks are far greater and you will probably lose everything.
@Kevin I bet you typed that from a prison.
@Kevin And you think like a peasant who believes himself royalty.
Whoever named this case at the FBI has no sense of humor. I would've called it Operation "Don't Pass Go".
Very fun and informative video. It's insane to think there weren't a system of checks and balances in place for this sorta thing and that they relied on the honesty of one guy for most of it.
Uh, the purpose of an operation name in the military and law enforcement not having a connection to what's actually going on in the operation is so that the agents can mention it in a less-than-secure location and not raise the suspicions of other people around them who shouldn't be in the loop, especially the targets/suspects themselves.
@@ThEjOkErIsWiLd00 your explanation makes a lot of sense and I can say I learned something from it, but probably not obvious info to most regular folks; the "uhh ACKSHUALLY" part at the beginning seems a bit unnecessary
@@Echidneys Yeah, I tend to correct people and I don’t use “Um or um actually” I just explain why they were misinformed and I don’t assume that they were just lying because that’s kinda rude. More people learn when you gently correct them because you don’t make them feel dumb. I like learning in general and know a lot about niche topics and am always looking to explain random stuff to other people.
Operation Final Answer is actually a very clever name. It's a reference to the show "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" with the host Regis Philbin's famous catch phrase, "Is that your final answer?" I think they had more of a sense of humor than you give them credit for. ;)
@@AleksandarBell sorry but most people have shown that they cannot learn unless being humiliated at the same time. a few bad apples spoiled it for all of us, now we all gotta deal with all the "uhs" and "ums" that pain you so.
This was an absolutely wild ride. I used to be hooked on the McDonald's Monopoly. Sad to think I never had a chance because of the greedy people who oversaw the event...
Sad to know you eat unhealthy junkfood.
@Cordelia Wagner you must be fun at parties.
Lol you actually thought a multi million dollar company was gonna give you a million for possibly only the price of a large drink loooool they aren’t gonna give you ten dollars let alone a million that’s like expecting more then a dollar raise you best be exited about that dollar cause it could be 10 cents every six months they don’t need to give you more then a 10 cent raise legally I’m pretty sure they legally never have to give you raises don’t ever think a company worth billions will ever care about you a single poor person you would have to be worth millions for them to care about you it’s only logical can’t stay rich and productive helping or teaching people you just bring in people that know what their doing that’ll make you money
@@kekoasiversons350 you didnt take a single breath, are you okay?
I always just assumed they were printing low numbers of one of the monopoly colour sets. I also regularly would see people selling "legit" ones on ebay, including the dark blue for hundreds of thousands, but the common dark blue for like £50.
This reminds me a a smaller scam, where brand new cars and $10,000 was won weekly/ monthly for many years, but the same family name was wayyy tooo often the winner (friends with other names also won) . Blacktown Workers Club, Sydney, Australia. The guy that did the draws from the barrel would often take quite a while to "find" the ticket. I remember one night in particular, where I was at the monthly draw, with plenty of entries and was feeling very unwell, but you had to be there to claim the prize, so I waited with the other hundreds/ potentially thousand victims, that had spent a lot of money there that night, waiting for the draw. The usual guy was doing the draw and spent what seemed like 10 minutes to grab a "random" ticket. The crowd was getting very loud and asking why it took so long to grab the "random" ticket, but no one caught on........... even I used to go past the barrel and wonder why there was so much sticky tape residue INSIDE the barrel , but no one caught on..... years later a mate joked about the friends he had introduced me to, won so much at the club because they were related to the main guy that demanded to do the draws himself and how they used sticky tape to tape one chosen ticket to the inside of the barrel.... which made it click why one draw too k way too long to find a random ticket.... he couldn't find the taped one.... they still probably have, or even use the same barrels. Such an obvious scam that went on for years..... apparently the picker was caught sticking the winner to the barrel and was quietly fired, so the public would remain in the dark. ...... but re rolling for Canada is understandable ey.
Huh... I heard in another drawing, the ticket was in the fridge and actually cold, so the person doing the drawing could feel for that.
@@zxKAOS1 you wanna know a trick that will help you win raffle drawings? Assuming you can drop your own tickets into the bucket; bend them up to make creases. They won’t be flat anymore and the person drawing will likely grab it because it feels different. Not foolproof of course, but it does help.
Dude do you know pick the joker at some Aussie pubs. I know a chick who told a guy what card to pick and split the prize with him it was up to 4k.
That's sickening,these people need to be prosecuted 😳
I worked for Wells Fargo Alarm Services and both Dittler Brothers and Simon marketing were our customers. Jerry was my contact there and I met with him quite often. He was always very nice and I was shocked when he was arrested and everything came out
It’s easy to appear to be nice when you’re lining your own pockets.
I honestly thought this was gonna be a completely different story. I remember a few years back people talking about how it wasnt possible to get all the tickets to fill in the whole board. Like certain tickets you could only get in certain states.
I've only ever seen two stories of cheats that really caught my eye and were captivating. The first was the Press Your Luck winner Michael Larson - who some would say didn't cheat, he just figured out the system.
The other is this guy. Well made video!
In the late 80s the prize was something like 10k and my mom managed to complete the grand prize set. When she took them to the store manager he told her to sign across the pieces. Eventually she got a letter from McD corporate letting her know she was disqualified because she was supposed to sign each piece individually.
they always used the most random excuses to not pay up if someone won
what kind of deal is that anyway? lol.Signing the pieces correctly or else disqualified? lol. If there was an exchange of money from a winning, I'd expect to sign real paperwork, and have to go get it notarized. Which is exactly what I've had to do to claim an Ipad I won few years ago. She could have signed them correctly and they'd still try to say the signatures dont match. Like what is that BS way of claiming the prize? lol
Sure she did.
@@chasejackson7248 It was the 2 blue pieces. Doesn't matter in any case cause nothing came of it. But her excitement, and then later, her frustration and disgust were all quite memorable. Just is what it is 🤷♂️
Really sorry to hear that for your mum. To think tickets were bought and cashed out so easily, but someone who should have won had to still jump through more hoops, as they say, to try to get that money 💰 then she makes a mistake and is denied. It feels like there was more than just the dodgy security guard at Simon Marketing involved in this scam, they just made more scamifications within McDonald's on it!!
I once filled two complete gameboards (perks of working in a cinema - you'd be shocked at how few people take their stickers, plus it was the closest place to eat when we closed at 1am) - except I could never complete any section, was one short across the whole thing
Back in the late 00s, I remember I was missing one piece for something like $100,000. Can't remember the amount, but it was one of the bigger ones. And a few months later, when I told one of my closest friends about it while he was driving us out to pick up some pizzas to play some Halo, his eyes got huge. At the next stop light, he reached into his glove box, pulled out a little white envelope, and pulled out the pieces he had. Yep, we could have won the $100,000 and split it. Needless to say, we spent the rest of the day laughing, pondering what we would have done with the money, and being super disappointed.
It's honestly a crime for how many times the ice cream machine is broken at McDonald's
Is that really a thing in America? McD's from where I am always have their ice cream machines working in top condition.
@SammEater maybe
We just know that McDonalds is basically intentionally making it impossible for employees to figure out what is wrong with the machine so they can give favors to the supplier of said machines in the form of "repair fees" where they force each franchisee to spend some money hiring unneeded repairman for stuff they really could have done themselves
@@SammEater Yes pretty much. They "broken machines" were used as a way to have the only repair company allowed to work on them to make immense amount of money. The machines were never really broke. They would just stop working and show an error code and the fix was always simple but could only be done by this repair company.
@@Dislob it was milking franchisees restaurants and getting more revenues to mcdo
@@kettelbe Yes. There was a collusion obviously.
Bro this lore goes deeper than anything I've seen, why was this not on national news?
What's really amazing to me is how McDonald's corporate sponsorship of nearly all forms of mass media has kept this story largely out of the mainstream press while it was happening. I can recall hearing the odd story now and then about the Monopoly game and some kind of controversy but this never rose to the level of awareness that it would in today's internet world.
It took like 20yrs for the story to come out
@@robd1329 It was well documented and all over the news back in 2001 when the story first broke. It just took you 20 years to pay attention to it. But it probably didn't help that the day after the trial started, 9/11 happened in New York which over-shadowed everything that happened that year.
@@MrRobarino Yep, this was big news in 2001. Everybody was talking about it. Everyone has just forgotten because it was so long ago now.
Yeah but that's like how no one's talking about the 3 illegal Chinese police stations the FBI found were established in the U.S., ones confirmed in New York, the other 2 are unknown and we've known since at least the beginning of November last year, why not more media attention? Why is this not regarded as an invasion by foreign powers? HOW IS THERE ALMOST NO COVERAGE? because the media is ran by the rich, and a lot of those companies have interest overseas...these things happen because the people in power allow it to happen, just like Epsteins murder, I wonder who will be Suicided as a scapegoat next
Imagine being the mobster that tells his associates "I know the guy that has all the McDonalds sweepstakes tickets”
imagine being the mobster that keeps his mouth shut and just collects the money
Paul Pelosi 😆
"I got a guy boosted 30 tickets to Chaka Khan at the Garden"
@@strangevisions5162 Johnny Tightlips
Real mobsters are scavengers and looking for any way to come up..They are like vampires ,your fucked if you invite then to your house
There's an odd kind of balance or symmetry to the fact that those most likely to scam or cheat are also those most likely to be too greedy and shortsighted to stop scamming while they are ahead. If Jerry had just cashed out early and went back to being a trusted security guard he would have gotten away with it but greed pushed him ever onward.
The problem with your logic is that we only ever hear about the scammers who are so greedy that they get caught. The number of people who stop at a smart point is completely unknown. Basically the fact the we only ever see the ones who get caught gives us the impression that ALL scammers are too greedy for their own good
Yes, after his contract with the mob died. He could have walked away without ever being found out.
He got caught because he cut ties with the Colombo. He could have stopped after getting snitched on but he didn't know he was on the radar
@@tannerarmstrong1496 Precisely, there are probably way more scams running that we will never know about because the people doing it are smart enough to stop.
@@tannerarmstrong1496 I know one such story of someone who carried out a scam for years, but nearly got caught once, and saw his luck was going to to run out so quit while he was ahead. You probably heard of Charles Ingram the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire cheat. One guy also admitted to cheating before him, but he carried out his operation in a much more clever way and only went up to £125k to not raise suspicion.
I remember I work at McDonald’s in the 80s and when they used to have that monopoly game they thought they were slick they would hide the game pieces in a box marked plastic forks. We took one home with over 5000 pieces in it only one of them was a one dollar winner.
We thought the McDonald's Monopoly game was so cool when we were kids. It's been such a bummer to find out how much of a scam it was.
Unless you live in Canada, it's not really a scam.
@@LD-hy1ps If you go in with the mentality that you're supposed to win something, I'm sorry but you're stupid. You're buying McDonalds food. The tickets are just an extra and you think you're going to win anything special from it for doing absolutely nothing but buying food? The one and only time I went this year with my friends and I won 6 chicken McNuggets for free. Good enough for me, I got free food for doing absolutely nothing.
It's bad if they don't have the prizes they actually claim but the chances of you even winning them is stupidly low, I don't know how you think just you and your friends will get something big when there are billions of visitors worldwide every month.
I love how McDonald's has more rules and regulations to prevent cheating in their Monopoly game, than Congress does regarding insider trading for themselves.
I used to just look at the odds and felt lucky if I won a drink. 🤣
Like $400 billion to "help Ukraine."
Yeah, It's all legit.
I'd like to compare it to the last presidential election but they were caught red-handed and simply decided not to enforce
@@rodrigorodriguez509 , amazing they were "caught red-handed", and yet none of you buffoons can produce a single shred of evidence, every one of the moronic conspiracies has been debunked, Trump lost over 60 court cases, and even lost multiple recounts despite the GOP hiring questionable companies like Cyber Ninjas to do it. Sorry your feefees got hurt, but this is just pathetic. Either take the L, or provide some proof.
@@rnettles6241 I'm so fucking sick of the blatant corruption running through these criminal traitors and nobody does a fucking thing about it...
To put it simply, as an ex McDonald's employee I've never heard of a single person winning any of the big prizes. Yes, I may have merely been a crew member but if someone won, you'd think we'd hear about it
Especially considering most employees collect the stickers themselves....and no joy.
@@grahamhill676 if you're employed by McDonald's at any level, you can't participate in the game, can't speak for others who do take them but there's little incentive for that much risk to steal those stickers and the free food isn't "free", you've already spent a bunch of money on food. Employees get half off and employers still make profits on their meals so when you buy a bunch of food at regular price then your "free" food has already been paid
@@helixmusic4279 You don't get free food on your breaks? We do in the UK, and whilst we can't partake in the game officially, there's nothing stopping us from peeling off our stickers and giving them to friends and family, which is what we all do here. The big prizes are quite clearly lies, because staff who have got like 4 or 5 stickers a day 5 days a week (multiply this by thousands of employees...) don't get any winning stickers. It's quite clearly a farce.
@@grahamhill676 I'm in Canada and no, we don't get free food on our breaks, not outright anyways as it's usually up to a decent manager going out their way to reward their crew. As far as my partner and I've experienced here as we've both worked at McDonald's at different times qnd places, managers here peel off the stickers on employee meals bought on work hours but not if you come through on your own time and that's from corporate so...
@@helixmusic4279 Yikes. We have a point system for breaks...So we can have a small meal. Kinda shit you guys don't get that as I assumed this was the norm.
Absolutely fuckin' crazy. Thank you for the fascinating deep dive into this case. Jerry gave the Hamburglar a run for money that never existed.
I had always heard as a Canadian that the prize was rigged for Americans only growing up, that the winning ticket didn't even exist in Canada but everyone thought McDick's made it that way. I pretty much just get jazzed for the free meal ones now and sometimes people will trade me meal ones for the vehicle cash prize ones. Sometimes I just give those away to someone if they want it because I knew I'd never win and just toss 'em. Unfortunately, none of my trades or giveaways worked out for my friends who were trying to collect :/
I‘d say they worked, because, hey!, free food for you! ;)
Of course your trades didn't work, the whole thing was rigged even without someone literally cheating away all the prizes lol
The competition exists in Australia, there's literally no prize money at all to be won (though on the extremely remote chance you win anything better than a small fries its not worth participating) and the game is impossible to play without downloading the "McApp" for your phone.
Your videos are something else like i've never seen. From the narration to the editing to the script, story line, pacing. Perfection! props to you man, your are now my favorite youtuber making these types of videos, and it's not even close. You've just set the bar too high man.
This is actually a brilliant video my man. Very well done. Story is worthy of a netflix series.
Not gonna lie, me and my family actually fell for this too. It got so bad, we just had bags of those monopoly tags trying to match them up.
How does your family feel about you having this profile picture all these years later. They must be ashamed
@@SteenSpinal4LIFE facts 🤦♂️
I played the McDonalds Monopoly game and the only thing I won was a massive heart attack.
Would you like a side of diarrhea and intestinal distension with that ?
I just snorted that was so funny. I hope you are joking about the heart attack. If not i pray you health has been restored.
@@megamadre At least you can recover from a McDonalds heart attack. Not so much from some other crap.
live by the big mac, die by the big mac...
At least you won something though?
I read the rules for the monopoly game. Had to rent a warehouse to keep all ten million pages of fine print and, after only ten years, I finally finished reading it and it states in ten million different ways that you don't win but they do.
Only ever won a stupid apple pie that is 10000000celsius and tastes like Dentyne. 🤢
@@FallenAngel53 yuck! I ate won that tasted like Pepto Bismillah
_Wait what??_
Really fascinating story. I remember those Monopoly promotions and my brother and I kept a sticker sheet on it once. We both realized the rare tickets that we would never get, but of course we never knew about this behind the scenes. It was too bad.
A very good linear presentation of this story, very good indeed. I saw the doco series 'McMillons' (twice actually) about this very scam, and while it was extremely entertaining and some of the interview pieces were pure gold, it jumped around a lot and I got quite lost in parts. This video really solidified the story for me. Thanks for doing it.
I hate those documentaries that wander and stretch out for 4 hours. You can tell me everything I need to know in 15 minutes.
This is amazing. I heard this situation covered before, and they said it was an accountant at Simon Marketing who did it, giving tickets to friends and relatives.
Edit: This video is much more detailed, and I believe this one.
Can you link the article?
@@maxxximussyntaxxx4252 It was a video, and I think it was a list like “top ten crazy somethings” and just briefly went over it.
@@Andreamom001 bet ill try and find it, kinda reminds of lotto scams with internal disgruntaled employees
Both are true. If you google any of the entities here (Jacobson, Dittler, Simon Marketing), you'll find plenty of articles about this event because it was covered a few years ago in an HBO documentary called McMillions. Jacobson's scheme involved an accountant, and Simon Marketing later actually sued major accounting firms over this.
Theres also a HBO docu-film about it.
I had a friend in Maryland who was in line at McDonalds,and he had hesitated to get in line because he was running late for work. He steps back in line and the guy who was now in front of him won a Jeep Cherokee. I think this was in the late 90's. Tough luck.
Rope up 😅
In 1988, I won its $1000 shopping spree at Sears, which was $1000 in gift certificates. I assure you I did receive that prize. But it was the most that I ever won from the contest.
My mom always told me this game was a scam. I didn't believe her. She knew more than she knew.
If I listened to my parents as a child I would be the king of the world. I would rule everything...
LIKE ME I DIDN'T FALL FOR THIS
OR ANY ONLINE APPS
I SEE RIGHT THROUGH BULLSHIT- I BELIEVE NOTHING TILL I KNOW MORE WHEN I FIND OUT IM NEVER WRONG-
EVERYTHING IS A LIE
But the game wasn't a scam. McDonald's got scammed. Their prize money was stolen by the mob
It wasn’t a scam just a criminal who had too much responsibility
@@kingpotent3950 it was if you were canadian...
You could send a self addressed stamped envelope with a hand written request and receive two game pieces (so the cost was one stamp per game piece). I figured the odds on the minor prizes and sent off one hundred requests and got 200 game pieces. It worked out to about half-price burgers, fries, and drinks. I was a poor graduate student at the time. Other students would come to my office at lunch time and I would pass out the prizes. Then we would all walk to the Micky Dee's for lunch.
Nice anecdote
You sound like a Real Genius.
You what?? You can do that ??
Legally, they allow you to do this.
It's what "No purchase necessary" means.
@@CactusPlant818 yes otherwise it's classed as gambling. Honestly I thought everyone knew this. But here we are.
This is such a well done video, good on you lad this was a great watch :)
As another Canadian joining in the comments, I too have never heard of anyone winning a real prize other than the "Fries / Hot Beverage / Cheeseburger" prizes. I try to avoid going any more than I normally would when the Monopoly thing is going on, but will happily go for whatever small amount of free food I've won lol
THIS IS WHY THEY NEVER FIX THE DAMN ICE CREAM MACHINE!
@Mickey Valentine I'd love to see Kira do a video on that. Leonard French ("lawful masses" on youtube) has a few videos about it too.
the company contracted to maintain the machine, refuses to upgrade the tech, because it would lead to less maintenance.
This is why ua-cam.com/video/SrDEtSlqJC4/v-deo.html
It's because the mob is using the ice cream machine to commit fraud.
I worked for McDonald's for the last two years and it was normally working unless 1. It was being cleaned, 2. It went into heat mode, or 3. People just being lazy but it might just be the one I worked at so I wouldn't know
Living in Canada and going to McDonald's dozens of extra times to try to win this game, now that I know it was not possible to win, I should sue McDonald's for the cost of those meals adjusted for inflation.
It's false advisement so yh could sue
There should be a class action lawsuit!
@@sandwich_in_wonderland I feel like you could actually file one... It's millions and millions of people...
@@CBlargh Mcdonald gonna lose so much money causes these Canadians😂😂😂
you could still get free food stuff though
Jerry, if you're watching this, you must try to make a movie out of this. Amazing story, amazing ending. Love it.
You really manage to find some of the most crazy and bizarre, yet entertaining stories ever to cover. Really loved the video
There is a HBO docu-film about this called McMillions I think.
This is all ripped straight from a series on hulu
@@threemar3 it’s not “ripped” from Hulu lol, this information has been out for a long time and videos about it were made long before the Hulu documentary came out
@@threemar3 this is better and actually covers some stuff in more detail
Let's face it KiraTV has found his stride with this new content, he clearly enjoys making it and we clearly love it and unlike the MacDonalds Monopoly it's a winner! This was so good to watch, I've watched the McMillions Documentary and I don't remember them going into as much detail about why Jerry was only giving small returns the way you have here.
100% I love the new direction
These investigative videos are incredible, man. You can feel the work and interest behind them. 10/10 would discover how scammy the world is again.
The world is always scammy, you don't need a youtuber to tell you that.
@@BeyondDaX Wow, was that a useless answer three days later.
@@BeyondDaX yup when have the lotto. Every day, week, month , year
It’s crazy how many of these scammers would get away with it if they didn’t get so greedy
Prisons are full of people who just couldn't keep their mouths shut.
I remember the commercials. I remember my mom calling it a scam. Mom was right on the money, passed go, and collected 200 dollars.
but SEVERAL people cashed in hundreds of thousands of dollars and even million dollar ticketS. plural.... in THIS video lol.
How often does she call corporate sponsored contests a scam?
@@Three_Random_Words this was back then so I don't know
Wasn't a scam if people won! There were actual million dollar tickets....
tickets given to mobsters. Great game.