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McSCANDAL: New Documentary Shows How One Man Orchestrated A Scam Using McDonald’s ‘Monopoly’ Game

Ashe Schow
McSCANDAL: New Documentary Shows How One Man Orchestrated A Scam Using McDonald’s ‘Monopoly’ Game
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“It was the biggest fraud you’ve never heard of,” reads the tagline for an HBO documentary premiering Monday about a 12-year scam using McDonald’s “Monopoly” game.

We all remember the McDonald’s “Monopoly” game – collecting tokens to affix to a game sheet in the hopes that you could just get the last piece you needed to win that million dollars or Corvette! It turns out there were almost no legitimate winners in the game between its creation in 1989 and 2001.

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