The McDonald's Monopoly Game Conspiracy

True Crime with Kendall Rae

Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In the 90s, there was a huge fraud conspiracy surrounding McDonald’s monopoly promotional game. Anyone could play, and anyone had the chance to win a prize, from a free sandwich to a car to a million dollars. The odds of winning were slim… so how was it that several of the winners of this game were all family members living in the same area?

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0:00.0	resellers and intermediaries are rarely a good thing in business.
0:03.6	So why do you make an exception with your internet?
0:06.2	Vorboss is a new fiber network for London,
0:08.8	providing 10 gigas standard for the businesses that prefer to deal directly
0:13.0	with the people who designed and built the network.
0:15.7	Vorboss, the business fiber network,
0:18.0	built by Vorboss for London.
0:23.6	So today I have a bit of a true crime and conspiracy for you all in one.
0:29.5	Today I'm going to be telling you about the McDonald's conspiracy fraud of the 90s.
0:34.7	Surprisingly though, not that many people know about it because this whole thing
0:38.7	really started getting media attention right before 9-11 happened.
0:43.2	And once that happened, all the media was focused on that.
0:46.2	And the McDonald's monopoly trial kind of got pushed aside.
0:49.8	It recently got a lot of publicity because HBO put out a multi-part series on it.
0:55.4	It's really, really long and I know not everyone has HBO.
0:58.3	So I thought I would do a condensed version of the story here for you because it's crazy.
1:03.0	So first of all, I know there's a lot of confusion about what the word conspiracy actually means.
1:08.5	It conspiracy is a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful and harmful.
1:14.2	Now that is definitely what happened here.
1:16.3	A million dollars!
1:17.2	Monopoly at McDonald's is back and better than ever.
1:19.6	Odds of LeBron James winning seven championships.
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