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Old Oct 27, 2015 | 1:00 am
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Originally Posted by Keyser
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....
However, if they do this with more than a couple names, I would expect SPG to catch them very quickly.
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