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FA$T FOOD FRAUDSTER!

We’ve all come across a cheater while playing board games, but no-one has gotten away with manipulation quite like Jerome ‘Jerry’ Jacobson.

Between 1989 and 2001, the scammer rigged the McDonald’s Monopoly game and pocketed $24 million dollars.

His swindle ended when an anonymous tip-off to the FBI led to an investigation and the fast-food fraudster was finally busted. It’s since gone down as

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