Originally Posted by golfingboy

Foreign addresses is usually one trigger in a suite of triggers that leads to a fraud investigation.

However, it is not grounds or a legitimate reasoning to prevent someone from purchasing points and redeeming for F awards.

The program as it is currently designed allows for such behavior and it can easily be modified to limit this kind of customer behavior such as instituting an annual cap. However, AS has no right to "discriminate" a customer under the logic you presented.

ETA: With that said, we only have one side of the story, there might be more to it on AS's side.