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Old Aug 19, 2013 | 6:33 pm
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farwest101
 
Join Date: Oct 2012
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The WS Banksters just fleeced a trillion and not one has gone to jail, yet you are worried about wire fraud for a few lousy points?

Originally Posted by flyerred
I'm new to the idea of manufactured spending and love the potential benefits, but I have some concerns. Could someone with legal expertise offer their opinion. Could the case be made by a government agency that manufactured spending to gain credit card points be considered wire fraud or fraud of another sort to defraud the issuing credit card company of points? Ordinarily, most consumers won't have any attention being paid to them by an agency. But, if an agency wanted to prosecute someone for any reason whatsoever, could this be a prosecutable action?
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