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Re:Woman makes $420k by buying insurance on flights she pred... by unishark on Monday June 15, 2020 @06:45AM (#23525945)
An easy loophole is to stop selling insurance to someone who has burned you for tens of thousands of dollars already. Except she used fake identities, which doesn't seem fair, or legal for that matter when it comes to air travel.
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Re:Woman makes $420k by buying insurance on flights she pred... by dmurray on Monday June 15, 2020 @07:04AM (#23526059)
If you don't take the flights, I don't see why this would be illegal "when it comes to air travel". People book flights for other people or with fake names (as placeholders, for example, in a group booking) all the time. On the insurance side, it does sound like fraud.
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Re:Woman makes $420k by buying insurance on flights she pred... by astura on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:27AM (#23526581)
In general, knowingly and intentionally deceiving an insurance company for financial gain is fraud. The fact that somewhat similar behavior is not fraud in a completely different context is irrelevant to if the behavior is fraud in this context.

Intentions 100% matter when it comes to insurance fraud.

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