The REAL Reason McDonald's Monopoly Was Fake 

Spot on.

Cause they are

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

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

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

scam the new trend of the century

Facts I wanted that free McFlurry

yeah too good to be true.

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

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.

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

​@@_indentNobody wins those dopey survey giveaways

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

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

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

Such a missed opportunity.

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

Or McShits With Lies

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

how?

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

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

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

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

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

Really

I wouldn't be surprised...

HEEEEEEEEEEERE'S FRAUDY!

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.

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

Fraud on the fraudster...poetic justice.

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

Some wolf of Wall Street shit fr

The real church of No’Mam

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.

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?

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

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 😂

Still have? It ended years ago.

ethics machine broke too

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!

That's its own scam, and there's a video on youtube about it. Basically, it's a racket to shuffle money to private contractors who are the only ones allowed to service the machines.

The ice cream machines work in the McDs for my country, I never understood why in the country of origin it is so normal for McDs to not have a working machine.

@@SammEater Because the contractors don't have a contract to work there, so they operate normally.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The winning pieces were given to family members

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

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

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

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

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 🙄😂🤡

Add the casino too LOL

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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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

@@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.

@@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.

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,

@@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.

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.

@@flinch622 Truth, yes.

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.

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

@@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.

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

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

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

duhhhhhh

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?

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.

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

@@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.

@@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.

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.

That's why you video or live-capture the screen. As soon as the prize message appears stating that you've won, that should be enough to have a court enforce it. [IANAL] ⚖👍

@@dieseldragon6756 No it wouldn't. Anyone can manipulate the website with Chrome dev tools and get it to show that message lmao.

Where?

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.

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.

Exactly

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.

Then they moved onto beanie babies

Your parents sound dumb lmao

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.

@@lucasm7177 George Carlin said that.

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

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

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

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

@@drakarrx Yep, that would be my guess, or other slimy things like recording it in the books, earn interest off it then give the original and write it off as a loss the next year.

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

Ronald McDonald House

Don't forget willfully serving coffee at temperatures known to be high enough to cause injury after being ordered by the court to lower the temperature and then defaming the 87-year-old woman whose pants were flash-fried to her crotch by their coffee.

Nobody else has the Big Mac. 😊

I had the Hamburglar stick a pistol in my belly and he stole my hamburgers, and Grimace felt up my sister. I was upset, because I was hungry, but my sister said she liked it. McDonald's told me to quit my bitching, that it's actually an honor to get mugged by the Hamburglar.

say what?

I like Colombo way more than McDonalds

God showed him

@@CyberAndy_I’m not a religious man, but I’ll go to a “purple lights rock and roll church” before I ever step into one of those kid-diddling catholic churches.

😂😅😂 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 !!! 😂😅😁

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

Admitting a theft crime! Wow

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

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

Isn't a free game included with each meal?

@@LordNementon - You got the monopoly paper (board) and with each meal you got monopoly pieces for the board to see if you could win a prize.

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

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

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

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

@@bigballz4u Dodge Viper crashes are common. Plenty of examples on RU-vid lol

​@@bigballz4uDodge Vipers are notorious for this

Well, that and he made a lot of enemies.

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

Jerry Jacobson had his OpSec skills trained up to 0

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

@@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.

​@@tashalynn29You forgot New Jersey

​@@MickeyPennthank u...

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...

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

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.

@@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.

​@@LickymaballsI 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.

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.

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

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

​@@statinskillstop whining, you backed a loser

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

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

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

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

@@bossfan49 It is, but back in 95 it was retirement money. Now it's part of retirement money.

@@zachlovescats95 I know a lot of middle class folks. None of them are sitting on a million cash.

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

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

AFTER you buy one, remember.

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

No I got a free drink 🤣

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

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!

Did your family know Danny "The Irishman" Greene?

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

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

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

Nah, he's still a villain. Anti-heroes have noble goals. It isn't suddenly noble to steal for pure personal enrichment, just because the victim is cummy.

They didn't back in the 90s though

@@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.

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.

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

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.

The bar is low I suppose.

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

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

..."feels like a* proper documentary"

probably engineered as a distraction. ronald did 911.

@chronicfatigue5416 except mcdonalds does literally serve actual food. just not *healthy* food.

I won some of that crappy food 😆

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

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.

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

@@timber72 nah she said mike donalds lol.

@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.

@@CatJonez973 I was being sarcastic...smh

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

There talking about the car and millions basically boardwalk and parkplace

@@n.l5452 sarcasm isn't your strong suit I guess

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

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

@@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

@@jaimhaas5170 you could say it’s McFishy

Oh didn't you know you have to request them now to save the turtles! Shame on you for not carrying your reusable straw clean and ready to go at all times! (Joking btw)😅

Good... more for me

The employees that work in the place are not intelligent enough to know what a napkin or a straw is.

When I was little, I used to often ask myself, "Why doesn't someone just go to the manufacturers of the playing pieces and steal the winner"? This is not a locked-down casino; it's a sweepstakes.

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

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

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

Mcdonalds trusted people to do the job, they got robbed too.

I am not sure that the yare allowed to run it in the states anymore but they seem to be able to run it in canada and the bigger prizes seem to be missing and less over all prizes and food wins. some of the so called prizes here in canada they call getting a discount on some headphones or earbuts from some online company a prize. so this is one of the scams they are running in other countries to get people to buy more mcdonalds. plus they put it online and have draws with companies where you can get a shopping spree so they can say you won something while it costs them less as those other companies pay for the prize that is offered. but it is doubtfull anyone wins any of those either.

Thief.

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.

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

Put Michael Keaton in it.

"McMillions" came out about 2 years ago

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

have you been to the church of the fuzzy bunny?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@SaraMorgan-ym6ue I would have been a regular if I was a local 🙏🐰

@@cdizzle just move there problem solved🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The FBI is going to see this.

His story that he saw injustice in the fact that no Canadians would win, so he stole from whoever would have won? What a stupid excuse.

How was he a good person at all?

​@@SpicyTexan64He planned on donating the winnings to hospitals but got in to deep with the money

@@SpicyTexan64 He wasn't. Just your average thieving, "oy vay I can't serve in the military because of my bad feet", lying, small hat tribe member. They get excuses made for them from other tribe members.

@@thestripedmenace LMAO that was never going to happen.

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

@@Yeahok-pc2jd clam mc muffin?

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