Originally Posted by beachmouse

From skimming down the thread in the credit card sub-board, it seems like someone figured out that a) opening up a new AA frequent flyer account generated a credit card offer with a good sign up bonus but that b) that sign-up bonus offer code was single use but not tied to a specific FF account. So they'd create multiple frequent flyer accounts under fake names where the credit card sign up bonus offer post card or e-mail was generated, and then use the code from the postcard to get a new card under their own name with their own SSN. And Citi was okay with these 'targeted' offers despite limiting general sign-up bonuses for that kind of product.

Until someone at Citi or AA seems to have decided it wasn't okay anymore.