Extreme couponers were sent to prison in $31.8M fraud scheme

Re:Extreme couponers were sent to prison in $31.8M fraud scheme by syspec on Monday October 25, 2021 @07:11PM (#28994370)

I'd love an in depth sorry on this. How did the coupons scan correctly?

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Re:Extreme couponers were sent to prison in $31.8M fraud scheme by lxchase on Monday October 25, 2021 @10:35PM (#28995783)

I went a little more in-depth about how manufacturer coupons work in a comment above. Long story short there isn’t any “server side” verification. As long as you have the correct format, anyone can create a barcode that will scan and give you the offer you encoded. But you will be committing fraud (don’t do it) and it does get checked.

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Re:Extreme couponers were sent to prison in $31.8M fraud scheme by hnac12 on Monday October 25, 2021 @07:24PM (#28994478)

There isn’t a central db of valid coupons, the discount and product barcode are encoded in the coupon barcode

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