McDonald’s Monopoly Was Rigged for Years

For more than a decade, the McDonald’s Monopoly game was not random. It was controlled.

From 1989 to 2001, a security chief named Jerry Jacobson worked for the company that printed the

winning pieces. He quietly stole the rare tickets and handed them to friends,

relatives, and criminal associates. Those people posed as lucky customers and claimed millions

in prizes. McDonald’s ran ads celebrating winners who were never real. Not a single major

prize was won fairly during that period. The FBI noticed a strange pattern. Winners were always

connected. Never strangers. That led to Operation Final Answer, a nationwide investigation

that uncovered one of the largest marketing frauds ever. Jacobson went to prison.