Originally Posted by NickB
According to the terms and conditions: "Star Alliance Gold or Star Alliance Silver customers cannot earn status in another Star Alliance frequent flyer programme", so the official answer is no. but I cannot see how this could be traced if you applied to a third *A airline to which you do not currently belong.
When all the star programmes signed upto the status match they must have provided their current UK Gold and Silver members details to the Star to allow them to mail out the upgrade vouchers etc etc.
Therefore if you are going to do the status match I would use a different address to your current memberships.