Originally Posted by Boraxo
Sooner or later your friend will get caught. I doubt he will face criminal prosecution (the police, at least in this country, have better things to do than to chase people claiming miles that they don't deserve), but he may very well be booted and banned from certain hotel properties and lose his cherished FF miles.
I think it depends on the state. In NJ I can say that fraud like the lamp example is taken very seriously. Maybe they would prosecute, maybe they wouldnt, but there would at the very least be a legal headache. The second, probably not but I agree that the auditors would pick it up at some point.