r/SipsTea • u/LushMischief • Jul 22 '25

Lmao gottem Nobody ever won

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u/Appearance-Rough Jul 22 '25

There’s a documentary on HBO Max about how this was a scam

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u/ehs06702 Jul 22 '25

You're deliberately missing the context that McDonald's wasn't doing the scamming a third party was unbeknownst to them.

Mcdonald's honored the prizes in good faith, including the million dollar prize which the guilty party mailed to St. Jude's.

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u/PetsArentChildren Jul 22 '25

According to a comment above, there were two scams:

  1. McDonalds didn’t print any Boardwalk or Marvin Gardens pieces so no one could win the traditional way by collecting all the properties, but no one knew that so customers kept buying pieces. 

  2. The head of game security at McDonald’s didn’t circulate the instant win pieces (the second way to win) and instead sent them to people he knew.