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Old Feb 12, 2022 | 1:45 pm
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Quail
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Yes, I just checked and their advertising still hasn't changed and it is blatant false advertising.

See some discussion about this on the recent Air Canada match here: Canada to lure U.S. frequent flyers by matching travel perks on Air Canada.

I would have thought they would at least catch all Photoshopping, but if they are even missing some of those that's quite sad and even worse than I thought.

Regardless, the core issue isn't that status match fraud is happening (after all, it happened before statusmatch.com entered the market). The real issue is the false advertising, in which they explicitly advise airlines to avoid status challenges and use matches instead since they have eliminated the fraud. As you say their "100% no-fraud guarantee" is trivially easy for us to disprove, even though I'm sure they actually do reduce fraud to some degree. No one, including them, knows for sure what % they actually decrease it.
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