Originally Posted by
myperks
How is this different than booking a non-pay your way award (a la Andaz Maui) and cutting down the nights to fit one’s schedule? If the system registers it as a booked reservation once the reservation is trimmed, it should be a valid booking. Not sure where the fraud is.
Wire Fraud under 18 USC Section 1343:
"Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned "
1. Knows it's a 3-night minimum.
2. Books that rate & checks the box, e.g. promises to pay $X
3. Intends not to honor the contract at the time of the booking.
4. Obtains money, e.g., the value of the lower rate