An early example of crowdsourcing via the Internet in the 1990s was to bring people together via email. McDonalds had an annual Monopoly game every year, where there was one million-dollar prize, and numerous other smaller prizes that were achieved by assembling blocks of game pieces. Jerome Jacobson, a former Hollywood, FL, police officer, was the ringleader of a scam that sold those winning game pieces that numerous people were clamoring for. He pocketed the winning pieces and sold them to the highest bidder, sometimes getting as much as $50,000.”]