Fraud Examination 5th Edition by Steve Albrecht,Chad Albrecht,Conan Albrecht, Mark Zimbelman

Exercise 27

As stated at the beginning of the chapter, it was discovered that the McDonald's Monopoly game was a fraud. Simon Marketing, which ran the game on behalf of McDonald's, was responsible for the fraud. During the investigation to uncover the fraud, the FBI used several different forms of surveillance. Using the Internet, find newspapers and other sources of information that describe these forms of surveillance and then answer the following questions:
a. How did the FBI use surveillance to gather evidence regarding Simon Marketing's illegal activities
b. Were the surveillance methods used by the FBI effective
c. If you were in charge of the McDonald's investigation, what other methods of surveillance might you have used