Mayor McCheese Catches the Hamburglar (A Look at the Instant Win Games Scams)

You’re offered a $1 million game piece for $40,000 dollars.  What do you do?  As you might expect, this may be an offer you can’t refuse. A recent and very comprehensive article in the Daily Beast, provides an in-depth look at how the history of McDonald’s Monopoly Game has involved McStings, mobsters and molls.  I will not go as in-depth, since I am confined to the fate of the billable hour, but the article raises a number of interesting points concerning the efforts scammers will take to cash in on that golden ticket, including, like our protagonist here, selling it to a purported Colombo crime family member, who, according to the article, looked like Al Capone and was obsessed with The Godfather.  The McDonald’s Monopoly Game is simple enough – collect game pieces from McDonald’s products and match them with related properties from the Monopoly board.  The odds of winning the grand prize of $1 million –…

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