What is the scheme of the fraud group who manipulated McDonald 's prize campaign at will and deceived 2.5 billion yen equivalent?

By Zhao!

In McDonald's of many countries in the world, a large gift campaign collaborating with the board game "Monopoly" is frequently carried out. The campaign where high-end sports cars and luxury prizes of 10,000 dollars (about 100 million yen) are crowded is greatly excited every time, but in the USA from the 1990s to the 2000s, in the United States, There were fraud groups that got prizes.

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McDonald 's Monopoly campaign is being held at McDonald' s in many countries around the world, including the United States, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Hong Kong and so on. Participants will first get a mountain called "game board" placed at the shop front.

By Mike Mozart

In the mount, color-coded square eyes are made, and luxury prizes are prepared for each color.

By Patty

A rule that sticks matches of color from "token" which can get when hamburgers and drinks are bought to the square eye. For the highest awards, luxury prizes such as luxury cars and overseas trips and high-priced items that cost ten thousand dollars (about 100 million yen) are set up.

By Lexy!

It was later revealed that McDonald 's gift campaign had been hijacked by several fraud groups from 1995 to 2001. Primary criminal male Jerome Jacobson inmate collects about 30 cooperators and constructs a sort of "ecosystem" that receives rebates instead of getting them to buy high-priced products for campaigns, I was deceiving profits.

The reason Jacobson inmate was able to construct such a method is that the company "Simon Marketing" he was working for was a company that operated McDonald's monopoly campaign. In addition, Jacobson inmate was in charge of security concerning this campaign, so it was in a position to be able to easily get the "hit" game token.

By Like_the_Grand_Canyon

The Jacobson inmate who failed to overcome the temptation brought by his position first made it to be actually elected one million dollars (about 100 million yen) in order to ascertain whether the mechanism he thought would work I put the game book in an envelope and sent it by post by donating it to St. Jude Children's Hospital in Tennessee State. When the hospital which received anonymous seal with postmark confirmed contents, the hospital made a fuss because the game book won about 100 million yen was included there. A McDonald's representative visited the hospital and confirmed it in detail using the magnifying glass, and it was confirmed that this game book and token are "real".

All the media tried to find the sender of this envelope, but no one was able to reach Jacobson inmate. In this rule of the game the prize money is not paid for a while because the assignment of the prize is forbidden, but McDonald's acknowledges the exception and pays the first $ 50,000 (about 5.5 million yen) to the hospital in 2014 It is.

Jacobson inmate who confirmed the certainty of his own plan with this test case, started real crime. Jacobson inmate 's plan to give a story to acquaintance etc secretly and receive a rebate in exchange for the transfer of winning prizes will gradually expand its scope. At that time I met Jeremero Colombo who lived in Atlanta and was involved in various wrongs. Mr. Colombo with a family name reminiscent of Mafia will become involved in the plan of Jacobson inmate.

Fraud practices will continue to expand in collaboration with Colombo. When it became possible to obtain collaborators who are willing to fraud one after another, the plan of Jacobson inmate suddenly sprang. Around this time, Jacobson inmate became called "Uncle Jerry" who took up the first name, and around 1998 the two tags entered the stage of the best condition. The two have continued their activities like the mafia and received a large rebate instead of giving collaborators luxury sports cars, luxury travel abroad, large prize money and so on one by one.

By clement 127

It was on May 7, 1998 that the relationship between those two people came to an end. When I was driving on a highway with my wife Robin and my son on an expressway, an "accident" occurred in which the course was blocked by heavy-duty trucks, and the rear pick-up truck was hit hard by a tremendous amount of crashes against the concrete wall It was.

Mr. Robin and his son seemed to have escaped safely, but Mr. Colombo is in danger. Mr. Colombo, who was taken to the hospital and received prolonged measures, became a person who did not return two weeks after the accident. However, he says that the Jacobson inmate's plan has been continued without delay. It seems that finding a substitute of Mr. Colombo was not so difficult because the collaborators were widely recruited at random, and Jacobson inmate continued to commit a similar crime after that.

It is planned by Jacobson inmate who seemed to be doing well, but in fact the investigation started under the water. In 2000, an anonymous reporting phone called FBI entered "McDonald's Monopoly Campaign is being operated by a person named" Uncle Jerry ". The FBI Jacksonville field office 's special investigator, Richard Dent, started the investigation and ascertained that the suspicious plan is actually being carried out. We also informed McDonald's and continued the investigation including eavesdropping on stakeholders in order to grasp reliable evidence leading to the arrest of the criminal.

By Jonathan

On May 30, 2001 McDonald notified dent investigator that a prize winner of $ 500,000 (about 55 million yen) came out. The dent investigator immediately examined behind the winner and confirmed that Jacobson inmate is a person living in a nearby area where he lives. While doing an eavesdropping investigation, the dent investigator instructed McDonald's to delay payment of the prize money, but this caused the imposter group to become impatient and to succeed later .

Then in July the same year FBI thoroughly marked Jacobson inmate and its collaborators. Although we failed to suppress the site of the deal, we subsequently arrested all the stakeholders in response to a large payment in the account of the cooperating parties.

On August 22, 2001, FBI arrested eight people including Jacobson inmate. In the interrogation that spanned six hours, the dent investigator presented evidence to the Jacobson inmate to support the crime, and Jacobson inmate came to accept the crime. In 12 years of fraud, 60 unauthorized items were charged, and it turned out that the damage amounted to 24 million dollars (about 2.7 billion yen).

For Jacobson inmate, lying in prison for 45 years was decided by imprisonment for five years in nine lawsuits. Also, from the houses Jacobson inmates lived, luxury cars such as Honda's sports car ' S2000 ', Acura's luxury cars, minivans, and 86 years Chevrolet Elcamino, etc. are carried out by FBI officials one after the other It seems that it was. The relationship between Simon Marketing and McDonald 's worked by Jacobson inmate was canceled due to nonperformance, but McDonald' s appeal of Simon Marketing fraud was dismissed, Simon Marketing said McDonald 's $ 16.6 million (About 1.8 billion yen) contract fee is received.

It seems that Jacobson inmates are looking back on their own criminal behavior "I made the biggest failure in my life".

By Wojtek Gurak