Originally Posted by lighthouse206

You guys are confusing theft for fraud. They are related but there are differences.

Anytime you lie to a seller to get something of monetary value from that seller that they would NOT give to you if they knew the truth you are engaging in a form of fraud.

Its like a mileage run where you bought the cheapo ticket and figured out how to NOT be on the plane but still get the miles and (extremely valuable) status. That’s fraud too, even though you paid for the ticket. You are cheating the airline out of something valuable.

Bottom line is this kind of behavior is damaging to those of us who play by the rules.