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can someone check out my essay i'm doing in my senior English class about the McDonald's monopoly scandal and what other body paragraph I could add for the fourth paragraph

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How the Mcdonald Monopoly Scandal came to be
Intro. Before we begin discussing the Mcdonald’s Monopoly Scam it's important to understand why Mcdonald’s even bothered with its own version of Monopoly, and why this Scam is still important to this day. The only reason Mcdonald’s did the Monopoly game where you could win expensive prizes was only because they wanted more and more people to buy their Menu items. According to Watson “the fast food giant should drop the annual competition, which starts this week, saying it encouraged people to order more” “(Mcdonald’s: Tom Watson urges Chain to drop Monopoly Campaign)” Tom Watson has also been trying to get Mcdonald’s to end the Monopoly to help kids and adults into a better and healthier eating habit. “Mcdonald’s Argued that people can take part by buying some of the healthier foods on their menu- and that they no longer get extra chances to compete by buying larger items. “(Mcdonald’s: Tom Watson urges Chain to drop Monopoly Campaign)” Watson tries to warn people that this new game of Mcdonald’s is indeed a danger to us and our kids public health.
Body Paragraph 1. In 1989 Jerome Jacobson who ran for Security for Simon Marketing stole over 24 million dollars from McDonald's during their Monopoly game they hosted every year “In 1989, Jacobson, who was earning $70,000 a year at the time, stole his first tokens and gave a token for $25,000 to his step-brother Marvin Braun. And thus, the multi-million dollar scheme began” (Gupta) Jacobson made it where the real winners didn’t get the prize they deserve. There were over 50 people that were working with Jacobson stealing from Mcdonald’s and the real winner’s “Jacobson, who was earning $70,000 a year at the time, stole his first tokens and gave a token for $25,000 to his step-brother Marvin Braun. And thus, the multi-million dollar scheme began! Uncle Jerry would distribute tickets to pre-selected “winners” who would pay him thousands of dollars to win. He used his friends and family to recruit willing participants with vastly different backgrounds to evade suspicion. Over time, he became increasingly careless with whom he entrusted, and this led to his downfall” (Gupta). Jerome Jacobson also known as Uncle Jerry didn’t just steal the cash for his own Benefit he even donated it to people who needed the money the most “In 1995, St Jude’s Children’s received an anonymous gift of McDonald’s pieces worth $1 million (A receptionist nearly threw the unmarked envelope away before discovering its value.) Who was the anonymous donor behind this generous gift? Uncle Jerry of course” (“The Mcdonald’s Monopoly Fraud”). Even though Simon Marketing attempted to do good they still lost their contract with McDonald.
The impacts based on this scam caused Mcdonald’s to Fire Simon Marketing Inc ending up taking their $500 million contract somewhere else. McDonald's reacted to the revelation of Jacobson’s actions by going on damage control. It fired simion Marketing Inc, taking its $500 million contract elsewhere, and announced an additional cash giveaway worth $10 million in 55 cash prizes as an apology to players who for years had played a rigged game for years (“The Mcdonalds Monopoly Fraud”). I showed these Various Quotes in this because it shows exactly what Jacobson did to achieve this Scam in the unique Way of doing it, and he didn’t even get caught until 6 years later. These Quotes also show who he trusted, and what he did incredibly wrong in order to be busted by the FBI agents. It's definitely important to understand what these quotes show and what they mean whenever read. Although Mcdonalds has gotten scammed due to their Big time Promotion they still decided to do it again twenty four years later in October of 2025.
The big time Mcdonald Promotion that Mcdonald decided to do once again back in 2025 is happening again so that it boosts the Sales that the Mcdonalds makes every day, its a game that people actually want to participate in, for hopes that they will walk away as Millionaire, although some people believed that this promotion was Rigged or in other words a Scam. Mcdonald’s now reinvented the game for the app era so now everything goes through McDonald's mobile app. So now Mcdonalds is giving their customers a big time reason to bother downloading their Mobile app. “The basic mechanics haven’t changed. You order menu items, you get Monopoly stickers, and you can win prizes—either instantly or by collecting property sets. It is, after all, Monopoly. The difference is that McDonald’s is now funneling everything through its mobile app. Even if you peel a physical sticker off a Big Mac box, you’ll scan it in the McDonald’s app to collect pieces and win a prize.
That’s not an accident. This time around, Monopoly is less about giving away free food and more about giving customers a reason to download and use its app. The chain already has one of the largest loyalty programs in the U.S., and this move only strengthens that ecosystem. If you want to play, you have to play digitally” ( Aten). So obviously the big update for the Mcdonalds Monopoly promotion is a pretty big deal to Monopoly lovers or for the people that just want to win the game either works just fine and no one has to worry about someone else scamming the game since they reupdated the game and made it impossible to even bother trying to scam the game.