Every company that runs a contest knows exactly where the winning tickets are, it’s a close held secret that only a few (maybe five) know ;so when a scam artist tries to counterfeit a winning ticket the company will know exactly.
Did you read the article? It was hard to follow at times with all of the different names of the players involved, but it was fascinating. But then I’m into true crime stories.
A respected man at the Ad agency had job to travel and place tickets on wrapper & Fry pods. He did a switch in the airplane facility and his escort didn’t know. He received special tamper proof bags delivered to him by mistake,
He started given connections the winners who had to go to various places in US. But there were slip ups.
He thought his Get out Jail card was knowledge no winners were to be seeded in Canada.
The story of the McDonald’s Monopoly scandal is quite fascinating. The cheater was the guy McDonald’s hired as the chief of security for the contest itself and he managed to outwit an auditor who was assigned to tag allot with him. It’s all quite an involved scheme involving the guy giving away the real prizes and getting kickbacks. Incredibly, he approached complete strangers on multiple occasions and got them to agree to be part of the crime.