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An interesting story about security and human nature. TLDR: for the first decade or so of the McDonald's Monopoly contest, it was utterly impossible for the average customer to win any of the top prizes.
thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-…
The dude hired to oversee the safe and secure handling of the super high-dollar prize pieces (Boardwalk etc) absconded with them. He started off by offering a prize to a friend in exchange for a cut of the money.
Once that worked out he got more methodical - looked for folks in a variety of states so the geography of the winnings would be randomly distributed.
Eventually, heventually hooked up with a mobster to whom he gave the winning game piece for a fancy car - in a weird twist of fate (karma?) the mobster in question died in a car accident not long after.
Eventually he got too greedy, told too many people, etc and the FBI got curious. The case got a decent amount of publicity at the time and might have been the trial of the century had it not started on 9/10/2001 and been utterly eclipsed in the news cycle the next day.
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