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Old Oct 27, 2015 | 12:58 am
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Originally Posted by skywalkerLAX
I can't see any reason why someone would do this though. It's not like you can use such a low amount of points as she presumingly collected for anything and obviously there will never be another stay credited to that account.
actually there could be a reason....this person creates the fake account & gets the points for the stay....then they can transfer the points after 30 days of account opening from the fake account to their own account if both the addresses on the 2 accounts are the same....it could be a very profitable way of claiming many thousands of unclaimed points from different stays....
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