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Dec 22, 2011 | 6:31 am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by RedVee

My daughter's landlord does not accept AMEX, so I Paypal her the money (I stump up the 3.4%) and she pays her landlord via standing order. If I want to trigger the 241 early in my year I might also send her monthly subsistence allowance the same way. Perfectly legitimate, and Paypal would have no idea what she was spending the money on.

So, expanding this analogy I could send her the Paypal payment and technically she could give me the money straight back. If you did something similar for all of your £10k spend it would cost £340 to get your 241, plus you would accumulate another 15k miles.
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So taking this approach a step further, what's to stop people sending themselves (rather than other people) the money? This would then be virtually equivalent to an ATM cash-withdrawal but would qualify for miles and spend. Surely this has been locked-down somehow?