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Re:Woman makes $420k by buying insurance on flights she pred... by SkyBelow on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:57AM (#23526794)
On a moral level, how does this differ from companies spinning up LLCs to gain advantage in deals being made? Consider Disney doing it so that they could buy land without people realizing who the buyer was.
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Re:Woman makes $420k by buying insurance on flights she pred... by blaser-waffle on Monday June 15, 2020 @09:18AM (#23526982)
LLCs are traceable by ownership. In most cases it's an obfuscation, not straight up fraud. The man on the street isn't doing M&A work so they're not going to chase down the history and pedigree of each brand.
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Re:Woman makes $420k by buying insurance on flights she pred... by burkaman on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:00AM (#23527367)
It doesn't, they're both wrong.
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Re:Woman makes $420k by buying insurance on flights she pred... by spennant on Monday June 15, 2020 @09:23AM (#23527025)
She impersonated real people.
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