Originally Posted by
Portolan
So he was violating the program terms and not innocently since ""he thought he was careful enough and his anonimity was protected" and thought he had a case?
His attitude was more that he was a good customer because he was a 1K/multi-million miler and that UA was treating him unfairly. He also didn't believe that they actually had proof, so that is why he protested so fiercely. I was somewhat skeptical of his story at the time because I found it hard to believe that they would ban a "good" customer like a 1K, but I did get to see the original letter and did anonymously call the phone number he was given to confirm it was a "fraud prevention" desk at WHQ.
Many people today seem to have a huge blind spot with regards to protecting their anonymity on the internet. Since everything one does on the web is tracked, it is really only a matter of how serious someone is about finding-out your identity. Especially sites like ebay, which regularly cooperate with corporations complaining about infringing copyright through unauthorized uses of intellectual property such as company photographs and/or sales of restricted items, by providing "confidential" user info for alleged improprieties.