The Fake Monopoly Prizes of McDonald's

Two separate but interconnected stories involving a scam to defraud the McDonalds Monopoly Promotion.
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[@mibeatleman6767]

This is why I don't play any games or lotteries, I believe they're all rigged and crooked as hell.

[@jaimhaas5170]

Spot on.

[@babyzorilla]

Cause they are

[@Freakazoid12345]

Yeah, I believe some people call it an, "idiot tax". Crazy that they are allowed to lie about this stuff.

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

well Mc Donald's is always been rigged even the food is rigged as it's poison not real food you know so of course there lotteries are rigged for the winners to be chosen by Mc Donald's not by chance

[@OregonCrow]

You also believe everyone whos doing better than you is cheating. Paranoid old man

[@badrien6595]

The thumbnail should’ve read “10 Years of McFraud”

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

Such a missed opportunity.

[@user-ss1ok1nr6l]

McDonald’s was NOT the entity committing the fraud, it was the company they contracted with to operate the promotion.

[@marty8155]

Or McShits With Lies

[@poopjeans1135]

The title is clickbait and borderline slanderous. The prizes were legit, they were stolen by an ex-cop who worked at the company that was supposed to provide security. Maybe change your name to @ssMcJumpsToConclusions

[@wardragonprime]

The Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes was involved in similar shenanigans.

[@dwaynelawson7398]

Really

[@sidehop]

I wouldn't be surprised...

[@Killermike2178]

HEEEEEEEEEEERE'S FRAUDY!

[@cadevaughn7596]

I used to deliver packages to a business that had a group of older ladies that would always ask if I had their checks from Publishers Clearing House. That was 10 years ago ish, but I think they were fully expecting me to have a check for them every time I showed up.

[@firebythewater4477]

My favorite was the year they claimed the winner would be announced during the Super Bowl....NOPE! NEVER HAPPENED!

[@imcrazyforwar]

I would never go to some "reunion" for a prize winners after knowing how I got it. Never talk to anyone, just disappear into the mountains

[@smokecheckmaster5896]

Right!? Bizarre that someone could "Win" something that huge and risk it, like, see ya in old Mexico Amigo!

[@daveinhell7476]

You'd see me vanish between two blades of grass; I shit you not.

[@zf5656]

There was so much greed and stupidly involved in all of this

[@corsaircarl9582]

@@daveinhell7476 I would just vibrate myself out of the timeline.

[@duality1984]

That's the wild part, like you got away with it, leave.

[@PatchCornAdams723]

I only ever hoped for the free food & drink prizes, even as a child I knew it was a scam

[@freetheworld12]

scam the new trend of the century

[@brianbristow4204]

Facts I wanted that free McFlurry

[@theluckyman]

yeah too good to be true.

[@dudeguyrockfan]

at like age 7 I originally thought the rarer tickets were on less bought items at mcdonalds around 10-11 I realized it was bull and that's when they stopped doing it too

[@a-fox]

It wasn't a scam... in a scam there would be no prizes. This straight up theft by the man in charge of ensuring that prize pieces were delivered.

[@davidcorley1146]

I called this as a teenager. It seemed almost certain that either the game was rigged or the pieces were nonexistent. There were a long stretch of years where no winners were announced publicly.

[@_indent]

The same for Walgreens reciept survey for $1,000 winner

[@_BigTimer85]

​@@_indentNobody wins those dopey survey giveaways

[@PH_INFO_101]

Personally, I recall winning a free large French Fries on several occasions. Just saying...

[@Coco-xw3wp]

​@@PH_INFO_101Right, I only got a free cheeseburger never fries.... McDonald's is a greedy company

[@MikeJAnthony]

@@PH_INFO_101 Think I won a small fry as a kid. And a friend won a small milkshake.

[@114D]

McDonald’s food also has gotten worse and worse over the years. My friend group calls it, “instant regret”. You instantly regret eating once you’re done and feel physically horrible.

[@RenditionLies]

For me, that's most likely due to the booze. Never catch me at McDonalds otherwise. lol

[@elgin6772]

🤢

[@NTJedi]

I read an independent health study done on all the fast food restaurants from many locations about 7 years ago. McDonalds had the worst rating ... literally an F

[@Brandoncye]

The fries are the only thing I'll eat from there anymore

[@jbizzybrown8847]

@@NTJedi BK is way worse here, but I don't eat at either.

[@TheHeirof50]

Somewhat related, this is why I never "round up to support X charity" There's never any public accounting of where these donations go.

[@murrayshekelberg9754]

yep, i don't give to any charity. I used to payroll dedect donations and one after another, going all the way back to United Way were all caught improperly handling money. There was that streamer whose name I can't think of who did like a telethon every year and never donated a single penny

[@higgsbonbon]

​@@murrayshekelberg9754 The completionist.

[@bsanchez3563]

​@@murrayshekelberg9754what is a telethon if I might ask or inquire legit not being sarcastic either.

[@ChainsawChristmas]

Round up so the mega corp can tax deduct it as a charitable donation made by THEM? No thanks.

[@drakarrx]

The company claims it and gets a tax credit and a pat on the back for being so giving.

[@adrianjones4806]

Having them hold signed pics of another McDonald’s while thanking them in a INTERROGATION disguised as an interview is DIABOLICAL 😭🤣

[@fredpagniello3267]

Fraud on the fraudster...poetic justice.

[@mike9031]

Wouldn't do any good, all they have to say is they didn't want to correct the person in the interview for naming the wrong place or they were mistaken. It was years later

[@Gritt982]

I remember this growing up in the 90s, nobody ever won a big prize in Canada, not once. But they still have monopoly each year with no winners. Guess they can get away with it here in Canada easier.

[@rickystarduster]

it is because the big prize is only for the states and they have had to change the rules for a smaller prize for canada. with that most of the people who won the canadian prize were in ontario but the canadian prize may have only been won a couple of times since they have actually have allowed people to win. and now that it is online since covid i am not sure if anyone has won any big prizes and they have reduced the number of over all prizes from what i have heard from a friend that said she wasn't even winning as many food prizes as previous years now.

[@louistournas120]

The government can handle it. They can easily slap a 100M$ fine on McDonald's without even going to court but what's in it for the prime minister and friends?

[@UndeadChallenges]

People keep not noticing because of the little free fries and free coffees that are quite common. You buy two large meals your almost for sure to have one or two of these things

[@user-mg9mk2xn1r]

McDs here in Germany runs it several times a year. Big prizes like cars, motorcycles, fancy vacations to be won. Won a few coffees so far. I’m getting close 😂

[@mirzaahmed6589]

Still have? It ended years ago.

[@DarthZelda1294]

In high school I went to get a drink from McDonalds with my friends. We all go the game pieces and no one really got much, one a free small drink and another a free cheeseburger. I peeled mine back and I found I won $500. I wasn't trying to win anything but $500 for a senior about to graduate high school and head off to college, it helped me get stuff for my university apartment. I haven't won anything since at all.

[@Lurch-Bot]

Come to think of it...I think I did win like 20 pounds when I lived in the UK. But even the small cash prizes were vanishingly rare and they didn't actually print the winning pieces for the big prizes. Mostly just won free food. And that's a cheap loss leader. It is sort of the perfect scam because you give away a lot of free food, an occasional small cash prize and then when nobody wins the big prize, you have the plausible deniability that someone simply carelessly discarded the one golden ticket.

[@_BigTimer85]

Thats most likely $500 more than the millions of other customers ever won

[@DarthZelda1294]

@@_BigTimer85 I wasn’t complaining about it… I was delighted. I spent the money on stuff for my dorm room in college

[@kiriyareview9823]

I won $100 the last time this “promotion” ran. It was on a medium soda. I needed it too, to go visit my mom. Would I play it again? Nope lol

[@DarthZelda1294]

@@kiriyareview9823 yeah I just got lucky, I don’t go there often.

[@bryantfloyd7471]

When I played this McDonald's Monopoly game all I ever won was just one small size soda. It's just a scam to increase McDonald's corporate profits.

[@Rayman1971]

Apparently there were big prizes to be won, just those tickets were diverted to the dudes family and friends. We all joked that it was a scam too at the time, just didn't realize how correct we were!

[@1djbecker]

Well, yes, it was obviously created as a scheme to increase profits. It wasn't a scam until the big prizes were diverted.

[@richardbyrd2581]

I won a nintendo 64 5 games so some prizes were real

[@MrDsturman]

I won a grip of free food. But it was always like just part of a meal so I would get more. But I remember I got like 4 drinks in a row because they all had a free drink or free fry

[@MrDsturman]

@@richardbyrd2581that’s pretty sweet I bet that was super rad

[@xxIAshesIxx]

I thought they canceled it because they never printed the stickers for grand prize winners. Was all a big scam to buy more McDonald's.

[@xxIAshesIxx]

So thats where they all went, this guy. huh. learn something new every day.

[@jwenting]

that's indeed how most such sweepstakes work. They then hire actors to "win" the non-existent grand prizes in front of cameras. More than a few such things have also been exposed, not sure if any of them ever made the internet, several of them made the national press here in the 1980s and early 1990s. And I much suspect many if not most lotteries work the same way (our national lottery here for example got a massive bloody nose when someone mistakenly published the winning numbers of the supposed "live TV drawing" 2 days before the broadcast.

[@ryanvarjas9719]

There’s a whole series about this that came out about three years ago.

[@casinospotlight3187]

Apparently, that was just a rumor. If they (FBI) could prove they never made corresponding winning tickets on purpose, then McDonalds would have been Closed Forever due to deceptive practices and fraud. Clearly that's not the case and if you think about it, even giving away a couple Million dollars is chump change for McD's considering how much they make on selling their terrible food worldwide and these promos boost sales for the month.

[@firefly44220]

The winning pieces were given to family members

[@WintJames]

The Lotto is called the idiot tax here

[@williamross6477]

Uncle Jerry’s villain arc is as good as any in fiction. I’m surprised it hasn’t been adapted into a full length movie.

[@espressomatic]

It's still a complete scam today. Outside the US where the promotion still runs yearly.

[@flinch622]

Now think big: real estate. Functionally [discarding the noise taught to and by the legal profession]... title is a fraud. The mechanics of real estate are more like a lifetime transferable lease - a debt that never settles. Try not paying so called 'property taxes' and at some point a sheriff has the last word on behalf of the jurisdiction that took what you paid for and government put in your "estate" at the moment of transfer... which is their control mechanism, not yours. Things we own? Small stuff that can be carried. Beware of any moment government arrives to what is your property with a plan for systematic registration. A registry of any design, quality or terminology is a loss of control which means what you used to own becomes a privilege - whatever it may be applied to. And about the money... what, on net, has a bigger yield per acre: an acre of wheat or an acre of suburbia with six houses on it? The line between consent of the governed and being farmed is a bit thinner than we might believe,

[@windhammer1237]

@@flinch622 Americans haven't owned their land since the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. That's when Communism took over and still few know it to this day. Taxing income is also another theft. The shackles of slavery are back on; they're just invisible now.

[@ll7868]

McDonald's and other US owned companies that operate in other countries have to abide by those countries laws, they can't get away with those scams in Canada or Germany. McDonalds is firmly against unions but every other country allows unionization or work councils as they have in Germany, the Japanese Trade Union Confederation and Australia's Retail and Fast Food Workers Union sued McD's Chicago HQ for unpaid employee benefits and overtime, that included PT employess as well, they won. Not only that, McD employees in other countries get better starting & PT wages as well as benefits like paid vacations, overtime bonuses and sick days as well as paid maternity and paternity leave, none of that is given to McD employees in the USA. The USA gives all the legal power to the companies, they can get away with pretty much anything as long as they contributed to campaigns on both sides, while employees are treated like slave labour and customers are nothing but marks for con-men selling snake oil.

[@terryscott7121]

@@flinch622 Truth, yes.

[@greatleader4841]

At $15+ for a meal, its a huge scam to even consider playing it lol. it was all fun and games when the meals were $4-6.

[@matth964]

I knew it! I remember arguing with my peers during those McDonald's monopoly years that it was rigged. I was right all along

[@sdgc8667]

The people printing the tickets and their staff were the ones rigging it each and every time there is a mcdonalds monopoly game not just these early scandals. Every single time. No matter who is running it, it is always too easy for employees to steal the high value tickets and give them to friends and they always do it.

[@theluckyman]

I wish u were in my friends circle lol so we can talk about rigged and sh*t lol

[@alexubel]

Rigged is a strong word for something that everyone already knew how it worked. That certain pieces of the board were in different parts of the country. You were never going to find Boardwalk and Park Place in the same state. If you found one of those, you had to find someone else that had the other and share the winnings. There were several winners of the smaller cash prizes however.

[@pvondrak]

@@alexubel That's not how they were set up. For each prize requiring a set, one of the set had a limited number of pieces printed. The others in the set would be relatively common.

[@alexubel]

@@pvondrak Yeah that was also part of it, but you would never find a complete set of the bigger prizes in the same state. They were distributed in a way to prevent that.

[@rjg514]

You would think with all that money McDonald's has they could fix those dam ice cream machine

[@henry000vee]

ethics machine broke too

[@jerry9535]

The law says they have to be cleaned daily which is a major pain in the butt so they usually just say the ice cream machine is broken!

[@ThexEpicxMechanic]

I wouldn't call him a villain, maybe antihero. Back in the day we figured that matching prize prints would be sent to different regions to make it impossible to win.

[@vtownhood]

Yeah that's what I always thought. You'd have to visit a McDonald's in Texas and then one in Wyoming to be able to win lol

[@duderama6750]

McDonalds running a Monopoly scam? There's a meta message in there somewhere.

[@BargerClan]

The name of the game is Monopoly By their very definition are bad. I think the game was cursed by using the name Monopoly.

[@Hick_Dead]

McDonald's didn't run the scam. Did you even watch the video?

[@BargerClan]

@@Hick_Dead you misinterpreted my comment I think the game was cursed by using the name Monopoly

[@DarkElfDiva]

@@BargerClan Just because they aren't the ones who rigged it, doesn't mean they weren't running a scam.

[@6Haunted-Days]

Wow what TF so you just assume what a video is about? Maybe watch it next time McDs didn’t run the scam. What a big brain you are 🙄😂🤡

[@gogokowai]

15:26 Imagine the FBI arresting you because you can't correctly identify an individual McDonalds out of the tens of thousands of copy pasted buildings across the US

[@Rusty-METAL-J]

Arrested for not recognizing your McDonald's... PRICELESS

[@shockthetoast]

It wasn't for not being able to correctly identity it out of tens of thousands. They gave her one picture and she said it was definitely the one she went to, even though they specifically picked a photo that didn't look like the location she claimed.

[@Rusty-METAL-J]

@@shockthetoast That's true. I just thought I would use a credit card slogan to make a joke.

[@turtledude01]

@@shockthetoast All mcdonalds look so damn similar, and ive seen thousands. Put a picture in front of me and tell me its the mcdonalds in x town and Ill believe you completely.

[@SilentEarthMovers]

I imagine they were also able to prove that she never lived or worked in Hilton Head, but was in Jacksonville the whole time.

[@bobbalcom2658]

I quit going to McDonalds. 30 bucks for lousy food and kids that can't remeber a stupid napkin and straw

[@jbrown577]

I played that stupid game online and won. My computer froze and came back on with a message that "there has already been a million dollar winner today". I was pissed!

[@SilentHillFetishist]

When you spend some time to write a review (can be a positive one), there will be a bogus timeout, your RAM is full. 48GB not full.

[@irongoatrocky2343]

Once upon a time I lived in Oklahoma....there was a running joke " Baptists will always recognize each other, except in the Strip Club and the Liquor Store!"

[@DecoytheSkeletalBoy]

The fact that it took this to make McDonald's admit that the game was impossible to win really just makes me root for the so-called "villains" of this story and makes me wish they stole more from the clown and got away with it.

[@Im_Tessa]

its like "omg guys....canada litterally couldnt win?" and we're surposed to toss tomatos at the guy giving it to struggling parents and childeren hospitals?

[@Hick_Dead]

The game was impossible to win because of the so-called villains. McDonald's wasn't running the scam, and nothing was stolen from them. Those so-called villains were stealing from anyone honestly trying to win.

[@jackthorndyke3390]

@@Hick_Dead Did you not watch to the part of the video where it was explained that McDonalds wasn't allowing Canada to win?

[@6dmiller]

@@jackthorndyke3390 I re-watched to confirm, and the video did not claim that McDonalds wan't allowing Canada to win. I just says the Simon Marketing execs were doing it without saying why. In case I missed something, do you mind citing the time where this happened? I got curious and looked up the counter-suit of Simon v. McDonald's and did not see any claim that McDonald's had instructed them to prevent Canadian wins either. Surely they would have made that claim if they could have. So the reason is a mystery. Either there was some other reason, or it's a well-protected secret.

[@jackthorndyke3390]

@@6dmiller Interesting, I didn't realize. That still doesn't change that it was impossible to win in Canada though, or that it wasn't the scammers who were the cause of that.

[@Yuritarkov]

The truth is, the game was rigged from the start - benny

[@MrManfly]

How McDonalds is still in business because of this is astounding !!

[@CassidyPresley-rk3ei]

…….It’s called…..The Root Of All…….EVIL $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!!

[@ronaldpershing8633]

duhhhhhh

[@IntoTheBelly]

In 96' or so, I found a $1000 instant cash Monopoly on my drink cup. I filled out a form, and they mailed me a check for the full grand. no problem.

[@RotmgGHOSTMOB]

Got hooked with the actual prizes then they dried up the prize pool over the years! Crooks

[@Ferrarimangp]

5:12 "I don't see nothing wrong with having a place where you can come in and say a few prayers, have a couple of drinks... see some women dancing" 💀

[@freetheworld12]

say what?

[@CyberAndy_]

basically any rock and roll purple lights protestant "church"

[@castorchua]

I like Colombo way more than McDonalds

[@jaydubya7012]

God showed him

[@jeanannd]

My family, friends and I often played the McDonald's Monopoly. That none of us even had a chance makes me sick.

[@alexprinsrealestateagent1263]

I can’t believe all the money people were spending on this game every year, and McDonalds was careless enough to let the mafia high jack it. No one was ever compensated. My parents probably spent thousands of dollars over the years when this game was on. I love how we all got scammed and McDonalds just moves on with their lives.

[@noctis129]

While I also spent a lot of money on mcdonalds. They don't owe us anything. It's like expecting Las Vegas casinos to give everyone money that was lost.

[@07wrxtr1]

Then they moved onto beanie babies

[@FoxGoesSquee]

Your parents sound dumb lmao

[@lucasm7177]

Is it any different than everything in our lives? Look at politics, your jobs and careers, just like someone famously said it's all part of a club and we're not in it, we just fund it.

[@windhammer1237]

@@lucasm7177 George Carlin said that.

[@louismat319]

In all fairness, 1 million in 1995 was a shit ton of money. 1 million today, your middle class.

[@bossfan49]

In all fairness, it's still a shit ton of money to the middle class.

[@gregkareem9824]

Stop cursing its a sin my dude................

[@gregkareem9824]

​@@bossfan49stop cursing its a sin dude!!!!!!!!!!!

[@gabri3l390]

It can't be fake, because I won a large fries one time

[@CatJonez973]

@gabri3l390 That's like having the answers to a test but purposely circling in a few wrong answers. It's called strategy. Ijs... Of course they're gonna give you a few bullshit prizes that don't mean much. It's to throw people off the scent.

[@gabri3l390]

@@CatJonez973 I was being sarcastic...smh

[@EastSideDoubleWide]

Ur autism got you on this one. ​@@CatJonez973

[@Youngstown529]

I worked at McD from 1987-1992. We employees used to pocket Handfuls of these tickets nightly (they weren't always attached to cups and fry containers). The most any of us ever won were free food (and we could never redeem it at our own McD).

[@cottoncandisandi6109]

😂😅😂 A friend of mine did the same thing . We'd be eating cheeseburgers and drinking small sodas , across town . 😂😅😂 Another friend , worked at BK and they treated their game pieces like gold . If you worked the drive thru , the manager would give you 20 pieces at a time and they were " signed for " . 😑 The burger king was a tyrant !!! 😂😅😁

[@angaminaga9162]

Hahaha nice one, it's like u didn't lose anything, though u got fooled, Or was it karma who who got fooled lol 😂

[@donkiniteforlife]

Admitting a theft crime! Wow

[@Youngstown529]

@@donkiniteforlife I hope the FBI doesn't knock on my door after 36 years. They're likely too busy with Trump.

[@BearMountainBigfootRescue]

Statue of limitations kicks in after the 7th free fry. 😅🤣😂​@@donkiniteforlife

[@A.I.Friends]

Most of us just liked the free food pieces.

[@jaimhaas5170]

Those of us that were smart. Nobody I know ever took any of those "grand" prizes seriously. Just the food was what we played for.

[@mimi7434]

Right? I got close to winning a console. Got Park Place for two yrs never crossed my mind I'd get money or a real prize.

[@michaelb.42112]

McDonald's must have the best PR firm because they've had a mass shooting in 1984, Super Size Me in the 90's, Monopoly scam, and the world still LOVES McDonald's as if it's Willy Wonka Land and nothiung bad ever happens when you're surrounded by cartoon characters.

[@gamephreak5]

Super Size Me was built on lies and deception. Everyone knows this.

[@someguy9778]

Ronald McDonald House

[@ItzzzBeamo]

This video’s thumbnail looking like GTA V splash art, is just awesome. Got my attention and pulled me into the video.

[@Dasswomp]

Deserves more attention, this vid was put together very well. THANK YOU!!!

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

it was a dream hmm I think it was Satan not god that ran that dream🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mastergems5145]

​@SaraMorgan-ym6ue Obviously. Think God would want strippers in church with alcohol? Unless they repenting, that's a negative.

[@gingercat7925]

There have been countless other specials made over the past couple of decades.

[@MetalsirenIXI]

As a teen and young adult I used to save my pieces like I had a chance to win xD

[@paulmartinez3502]

I used to play that when they would play the promotion. I was in elementary school when it started in 1989, in middle school, me and my friends would combine all our free food pieces and walk there and we'd chow down.

[@tomwi53092]

It's pretty obvious to most of us that the grand prizes are limited by a scarce single piece, but not everyone. I remember people posting personal ads in the newspaper (early 1980s, way before the internet) that they had all the pieces except one, and were willing to split the jackpot with anyone who had that piece. Made me laugh.

[@theq4602]

The thing about dodge vipers many car enthusiasts will tell you is just how challenging they are to drive. It is a car that is constantly 'trying to kill you'. They are fast and twitchy, not to mention the gas consumption, insurance rates and the tailpipes are in a perfect position to burn your ankles. It wasn't exactly built for the average car owner. It was built specifically for enthusiasts and had a matching price tag, as well as a matching driving difficulty. As soon as I saw the ad that he won a viper I knew exactly what his fate would be.

[@bigballz4u]

"I know stuff about a car so that allows my crystal ball to tell me how events will unfold." sure buddy

[@drunkenrampage1588]

@@bigballz4u Dodge Viper crashes are common. Plenty of examples on KZbin lol

[@mack.attack]

​@@bigballz4uDodge Vipers are notorious for this

[@Aerodeth]

Well, that and he made a lot of enemies.

[@bigballz4u]

@@drunkenrampage1588 That doesn't mean everyone who drives them is going to die doing it

[@kevingrisler4123]

I've always felt like every sweepstakes/giveaway like this is completely fake. At best they give the prize to a friend or family member and then write it off

[@Marzimus]

Video game magazines, in the 90's, ran ads to 'solve this crossword, send it in with five dollars, win this tv, stereo, and game consoles!' At ten it seemed too good to be true and many times aince I've encountered "prize opportunities" that gave me the same feeling...

[@derekmcdaniel6029]

nah, it's not. you're wrong.

[@rickystarduster]

the biggest part of the scam was because they make sure the pieces go to different places so you cannot match what you need unless you start going to different mcdonalds across the country at least that is the case here in canada. the problem with this contest is that mcdonalds knows where the pieces are sent so they can rig the system so no one can win. which is why it was such a big thing that this scheme went on and mcdonalds lost a lot of money. but atleast stjudes got to keep their big prizes.

[@bojangle]

@@Marzimus Check out "Who Won the Ultimate Gaming Rig? - Gaming Mysteries" from Whang!. I think those are the contests you're referring to. Spoiler: It was a scam.

[@springrain9438]

​@@rickystardusterI don't know about recently but back in the 90s in the states the way it worked was there would be one specific property in each color, that was the "missing link". The one winner of each set was randomly distributed to various McDonald's. Well at least that's how it was supposed to work without scammers influence.

[@SeanDSarcasm]

KZbin content today: Watches well known documentary , buys B roll , clips original content, talks over it. Video done.

[@gemini_man66]

Never trust a Clown, a King, a Mouse, or a Mermaid.

[@chriswillis4153]

The Aladdin clip got me 😂😂

[@Blanket420]

I find it funny how it could've been kept on going but the fact that the best winners came from the same town is the smoking bullet. What are the chances?

[@evilmotorsports5076]

Jerry Jacobson had his OpSec skills trained up to 0

[@tashalynn29]

Kind of like how the PowerBall lottery nowadays which is played all over the country is only won in California. Rigged.

[@dustybrown4599]

@@tashalynn29 That's not true though. NY wins more than Cali. They both have huge populations and win more often, but most states have multiple winners.

[@MickeyPenn]

​@@tashalynn29You forgot New Jersey

[@PancakeDiaries]

​@@MickeyPennthank u...

[@chuyocaca4153]

"Alright! you either become the Villian! or live long enough to die as a Hero!" Oh wait! never mind. 🤣

[@timber72]

The irony of having serial fraud and liar Brian Williams sprinkled throughout this video is as delicious and refreshing as a Shamrock Shake.

[@NewOrderOfAlexandria]

The only monopoly McDonald's win is a free cheeseburger

[@BlackSlimShady]

If that dude. Try 3pc Chicken Nuggets. That's all I've won in the last 2-3 years

[@infinidominion]

​@@BlackSlimShadyI didn't even know they still had it. These days at least there's app bonus deals

[@bennybongosbigolebonanza894]

AFTER you buy one, remember.

[@BlackSlimShady]

@@infinidominion it runs every year in NZ, as well as the app deals

[@jason66801]

No I got a free drink 🤣

[@0clut]

Went to sleep watching this, and came back when I woke up. This video is more than amazing, keep up the good work!

[@614BlueBerry]

"Heres $1mill, all you gotta do is do nothing and enjoy it, no interviews" Roberts and Gloria: And I started blastin

[@mattihp]

So much better than the long filler series I saw on this. Great work!

[@TBONE_2004]

"In the end, we fucked it all up..." - Nicky Santoro, Casino 1995

[@bradye21playsIndieHorror]

I figured there was no boardwalk, but that all the other items were real. To me getting the free food pieces was worth it since i wanted to eat there anyway (at the time).

[@user-jg5ws9gr8n]

I used to look for free items only Left all the other pieces on the table for others to commiserate

[@rickystarduster]

it wasn't just that there was just one ticket in the biginning but also later on when they went and put out multiple of each piece they rigged the system so that you would have to travel across the country as certain pieces went to certain places and no one could claim the big prizes unless they traveled and stopped in different states. its the same here where i live in canada we would litterally have to travel from coast to coast stopping at multiple mcdonalds in each province here just to collect all the various pieces to win a decent prize.

[@bradhaley8432]

Fun fact: the very last time that the Shippensburg Pennsylvania McDonald's location decided to do the mcnopoly scam was in 2010.

[@samson5791]

I remember as a teen dumpster diving at McDonalds for that million dollar ticket. All I found was a foul odor.

[@statinskill]

American lotteries are also not at all trustworthy. Unless you work there and have access you're unlikely to win.

[@jwenting]

not just American lotteries. The Dutch (government run) national lottery was caught red handed defrauding the results some 15 years ago. The 'live drawing' of the winning tickets was actually done days in advance, something that was exposed when one publication mistakenly published it 2 days before the TV broadcast. And many people have gone on record for other lotteries and prize drawings here stating they were hired actors rather than actual winners and had to return the winnings after the press event. To add insult to injury, our tax laws are such that many who win things like cars and houses here are forced to instantly sell them far under market value in order to be able to pay the 25% tax on lottery earnings, something most lotteries (and none of the TV shows) ever disclose.

[@statinskill]

@@jwenting That's what happens over here with election "results".

[@ooommm4024]

You totally can win, albeit it is by being the owner of the lottery or casino.

[@thatguyoverthere8355]

​@@statinskillstop whining, you backed a loser

[@chevy4x466]

U could’ve knocked me over with a feather 🪶 😂😂😂

[@LDrosophila]

To be fair to Gloria how would she be able to pick out any McDonalds franchise from others? They all look alike.

[@thestripedmenace]

They didn't back in the 90s though

[@everybuddy5924]

@@thestripedmenace Many did though. McD's will change their store looks from time to time but it is cheaper and faster to use the same design over and over again.

[@mccalejk2]

Yes, you should recognize your McDonald's. But ya'll are acting like this was the smoking gun, it was not. The FBI already had her. Her incorrectly pointing out her "MacDonald's" was just part of it.

[@LucianDevine]

The parking lot layout and the area surrounding the store. They didn't just give her a picture of the store.

[@moose030406]

I wouldn't know either plus they just asked for an autograph. It was all a trick. Some people just want to meet a quota.

[@ashtray8677]

The palm tree in the mcdonalds picture should've been a dead give away 😂

[@aarong8457]

At my local McDonald's They would offer to give you a free large drink if you wanted and would basically argue with you if you said no. The reason was that only the medium cups had the pieces. I later saw them peeling them off and giving winning pieces to their friends.

[@docadams7099]

I remember this was a big story in the newspapers on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Some of the court cases were still being worked out when the terror attacks happened.

[@henry000vee]

probably engineered as a distraction. ronald did 911.

[@Proto-Martyr]

I love your editing style. This truly feels like an proper documentary. Great video ❤

[@the_kombinator]

The bar is low I suppose.

[@PRCallahanjob]

Good if not for the ridiculous amount of completely unreleated movie clips

[@RuminatingWizard]

If it weren't for all the film and stock footage, there'd be no video for half of it.

[@dickjohnson7547]

..."feels like a* proper documentary"

[@altavilla22mikeable]

I always use this example when I see someone buying scratch tickets with the odds printed on the back. Id say "if you went to a sold out football stadium, with 50k people in it and they said only 1 person can win, do you think that's good odds? " - response is usually "no way, that's really bad odds", I tell them their scratch ticket says its 1 person winning in 10 of those stadiums for that $10k prize.

[@PH_INFO_101]

Don't forget about the Publisher Clearing House Sweepstakes. A billion-dollar winner every year with the recent addition of the winner being able to add a friend to receive the same winnings.

[@carsongxd]

Glad I came across your channel, good work

[@MayimHastings]

I remember when this started and my mom said it was a scam to get people to buy more McD's and no one was ever intended to win. I was so bummed that the world could be so gross. Mom is the least cynical, and most gullible person i know, but the woman can spot evil a mile away.

[@Nethezbet]

The winners reunion literally sounded like an interrogation, lol

[@MultiXing]

To those who don't know, Youngstown, Ohio is very much synonymous with the mafia and has a long history with the mob. To the point where car bombs were referred to as the "Youngstown special" and even parts of my family were connected.

[@swoomzie]

As someone who lived nearby in Cleveland for the majority of my life, this surprised me! That's a really creepy fact lol. Thanks for the insight!

[@mikehunt4986]

Did your family know Danny "The Irishman" Greene?

[@JimAllen-Persona]

Wasn't aware of that. Probably should've figured it out because of all the labor in the steel mills.

[@chevy4x466]

Yup, sadly a more Ruthless gang of criminals have since terrorized America…. The democrats. They truly have their greedy hands in every kickback in business and government

[@stephaniec2944]

How do you not have many many more subs?!? Love your content! Thank you❤

[@Rockhound6165]

There's a documentary on MAX about this and the scam wasn't McDonald's but the company who made the tickets. Someone was able to steal all the big prizes and was selling them. Watch the show. It's called McMillion$. It's pretty good.

[@kiddd65]

Thanks for commenting this becaue I will check it out. This video actually sucked and never came to a concluion of anyhting

[@haywirewindgod]

You call him a villain, but frankly, he is a hero. Anyone who's Able and willing to call a corporate entity on its bullshit is one hundred percent a hero.

[@moose030406]

Whats wrong with giving away money?

[@SoNoFTheMoSt]

'Thanks a million Mike Donalds' hahah :)

[@timber72]

Yeah, she kept saying "Mack Donalds." Very annoying.

[@SoNoFTheMoSt]

@@timber72 nah she said mike donalds lol.

[@Rusty-METAL-J]

The guy offering congratulations to the new detectives who passed the testing, sounds like Martin Sheen.

[@Ultradude604]

Think it was from the movie, "The Departed". A line spoken by his character to Leonardo Dicaprio's character earlier in the movie.

[@dudeguyrockfan]

but wait didnt mcdonalds end up doing this monopoly promotion until roughly 2010 ish?

[@andrewgoodner154]

Amazing story telling and editing style my guy. You've got some serious skills!

[@Octokura]

It’s a good day when The Fool uploads

[@rokblades3532]

This was so well done your style of video is great. And i loved the music choices you made

[@nanzingdadi3205]

Have to admit , the editing of this documentary was so hot, I literally watched the videos twice 🔥🔥🔥

[@diehardeaglesfansince1994]

my aunt won a cruise from the monopoly game so it wasnt all BS

[@cfairfax85]

That's part of the scam. Some people had to win to make it look legit. That's dope though..good for her.

[@WizzRacing]

I remember when Pepsi was running their promotion. All the Bottle cap makers for Pepsi would randomly show up. Run their hands through the bottle cap making machine. As if they wanted to feel them. Only to find out they were dropping the prizes in them. That way nobody knew where the winning caps would end up. It was crap shoot.. And the kid never got his Harrier. The court rejected his claim. As it was never on the list of prizes you could redeem..

[@mimi7434]

Lol I remember the Pepsi caps! I think I got a few free Peps and I think I won a free ringtone download.

[@someguy9778]

I received several items from pepsi points. You had to redeem them online. Got wireless headphones and I don't remember what else.

[@El_Peto]

Well the Harrier couldn't be legally purchased at the time and would have been a lawn ornament even if they did give him one

[@scottbergman8662]

This could be an excellent movie concept. It could be a twist with the “wrong Jerry” to create a fantastic set up.

[@mrbojangles1391]

The only problem is that (1) Jerry #1 obviously wasn't very smart and (2) there had to be someone higher up the chain. He wasn't printing game pieces in his garage.

[@chevy4x466]

The idea that the jays had the Italian to do the dirty work is classic

[@spiegeltn]

Put Michael Keaton in it.

[@PancakeDiaries]

"McMillions" came out about 2 years ago

[@tyrese3745]

I am at a loss for words. This was about the *_lowest_* McDonald’s has ever done. Scammed. Deceived. Misled! And that’s what happened to me over the years playing that game whilst ordering my food. We were all the fools.

[@juliashenandoah3965]

Sad - it took until mid 2024 for some people finding out that all this gambling, lotteries, giveaways, etc. going on for half a century now is all fraud scam and an outright LIE. Did you really think any of these things are real: "And another happy winner from Spain is now 50 Million € richer!" down to smaller giveaways like KZbinrs "Giving away another 5000$ gaming computer, or a 3000$ graphics card, all you have to do is SUBSCRIBE to win!" All of this is an outright lie. NO ONE ever won this money all these millions these cars and computers and houses or any of this giveaway and lottery stuff since decades. Or course at the end of smaller private giveaways a charade is filmed seeing the KZbinr giving the computer or the graphics card or whatever to "a happy, fully random selected lucky winner!" (who is in truth his pal or his brother acting for the camera, but that computer never really left the KZbinrs home.) The same happens on the grand scale too, sometimes paid actors related to the organizer and host of a giveaway drive away with their big prize the Lamborghini just to drive around the block and after sunset back into the car saloon again - in secret through the garage back door. It is necessary to sometimes present paid actors acting like they won something big in public to keep all the sheeple motivated: "Oh look at this happy winner! I should invest even more money in gambling because that multiplies my luck and one day I will be this lucky person behind the sports car steering wheel or with a bank account having six figures!" Well this will never happen, because every gamble is a scam, and if some "lucky winner" is rarely presented to the public he or she is nothing but a paid actor directly related to the host of the lottery. Think about these words before throwing away the next 5 or 10 bucks for lottery tickets: No one ever wins anything, all of this is a big-scale scam and outright lie! Buy something nice for yourself instead ;)

[@leadonsoftly]

The occasional free fries was all that I was ever in it for.

[@kkulist]

Thanks for the vid. Love the way you edited it, it's like watching a doc on TV. Also very informative.

[@tookay4ever]

Funny to see this, I am one of the “Winners”. I bought a Big Mac Meal and I won a car on the monopoly game. I contacted them and was told to send in the winning piece to a certain address which I looked up and it was their corporate address was even on the website. It was a truck, forgot what kind I was far too excited to really care as I didn’t even have a scar at the time. I got a letter about 6-7 weeks later stating that the game had passed and that my time had elapsed for me to get the prize. Well, I contacted a lawyer and we got to the bottom of it, it was found out that exactly what you are sharing did in fact occur and that a legal battle was occurring and if we won each person was getting a lump sum of money. 8 months after all this I recieved a check for 170.50 🤣 I mean I guess 170.50 is nice for spending about 6.75 at the time (it was 2004) so it’s still a win, but man did I want that cool truck, I think it was a ford lightening or something like it maybe the Harley edition f-150

[@jaimhaas5170]

So what did the lawyer cost you? This seems pretty fishy.

[@tylerlormand5644]

no u didnt and lying won u no points ...fkin lame

[@tookay4ever]

@@jaimhaas5170 good thing was that the fees were covered. But aside from that it wasn’t very much worth it to be a part of it as I figured there was something off about me (13 at the time) winning a car legally lmfao 🤣 turns out my parents had to do the lawsuit since I wasn’t of age to win

[@tookay4ever]

@@jaimhaas5170 you could say it’s McFishy

[@ImTheCrew]

Dude! This is a great video!!!! I thought you were a big KZbinr… this is done so well, subscribed and notifications, on. I see you haven’t posted in 7 months!!! 😢 more videos please! 🙏

[@wonkydonk9073]

Somewhat unrelated, but I really miss the days of bottled cokes and such having a "FREE DRINK" prize under the lid or something like that, where you actually took it back to the store to get a free drink. Now all those sorts of games just use a stupid QR code you put in your phone where they try to get all your data so they can spam you.

[@GDoggProductions]

Nahhhh your editing is on fire 🤣😄 " he can't keep getting away with this" 💀💀💀💀

[@qkez3526]

This video is criminally under viewed. Hope it gets the attention it deserves some day.

[@Zappy1210]

I won free food a few times but had a friend that won an instant $1,000.00. He filled out the paperwork and was paid in just a few weeks.

[@ert1033]

I worked at McDonald's in 2008 to 2010. I had stacks of tickets from cups etc. and played it seriously. I probably has 100 of them. The best prizes were usually like a large fries or mcflurry. But the million and cars or whatever they had had the time seemed hard to believe.

[@xanderytube]

friend of mine worked at mcdonalds back then and "borrowed" two boxes of game pieces... went over there house and four of his family were sitting around a table opening up all the game pieces lol. They never really won anything of value, and it was thousands of pieces.

[@jaimhaas5170]

Plenty of free food though. that's what most of us played for.

[@Yeahok-pc2jd]

I went to a McD when this was ongoing and asked the girl who took my order if I could have some extra tickets, she gave me an entire box full, ya I won a bunch of food/drinks but I got the real prize after I took her out after she gave me her phone # 🤣

[@jaimhaas5170]

@@Yeahok-pc2jd clam mc muffin?

[@mhkpt]

When a terrible restaurant and a terrible game join forces

[@windhammer1237]

I always hated playing Monopoly. Once someone got Park Place and Boardwalk it was just a slow decline into bankruptcy for everyone else.

[@whiskeymonk4085]

Wheel of justice. Let's see who it lands on this week ... Buhlack Buhlack Buhlack Buhlack Buhlack Buhlack Buhlack Wop

[@whiskeymonk4085]

Make jokes funny again.

[@dtimbs84]

I'm getting whiplash with all these movie scenes. Ya got goodfellas, Harry Potter, you're showing Thanos....lol calm down dude....

[@michellegray7892]

Your videos are so well done, I don't understand why you don't have way more subscribers because you have serious skills. Count me as a new subscriber!

[@Sirenhound]

I am amazed that McDonald's still run Monopoly promotions after this

[@everybuddy5924]

McD's didnt do anything wrong, It was the security guy with the marketing company that did this. After this came out, McD's changed the marketing companies to run the monopoly game.

[@peter-peter5929]

Ouch. Those first generation Vipers were unpredictable when you whipped them in traffic(so I've heard). Jerry must have regretted the whole thing as soon as he lost control.

[@gymeni]

I’ll never forget when I received a YELLOW Park Place piece. The local restaurant shrugged it off and I never got a response from Corporate.

[@Binx345me]

you probably had the rarer winning piece!

[@moose030406]

They saved you from going to prison.

[@laurynharrell8529]

Your editing skills are TAKING ME OUT! Like…✨👀✨🤭✨ But also, your content is compelling. So,✨😎💅✨