This claim that AA did not put exactly every little detail in exactly right is ridiculous. This is what creates the “HOT COFFEE” messages on cup, people avoiding COMMON SENSE.

Put this energy into something positive and do something good for the world.

Bottom line, these awards were stolen and taken fraudulently. Stop trying to rationalize it any other way. Adults admit when they did wrong and got caught.

These comments show the lack of ethics, morals, quality, and character of those who did this. They know better, yet chose to STEAL from a company.

AA should look at the total dollars of real damages and file charges for theft against these people.

It’s quite interesting that maybe some of the things that were apparently done with aplomb over a decade ago have since become an invitation to be slurred with the label of fraud from some of the very people who racked up hundreds of thousands of miles from credit card sign-up bonuses.

I got my first couple million of AA miles purely from the flights credited to my account and got my status that way. But most of the MM crowd on FT had huge chunks of their lifetime elite status come from credit card sign-up bonuses back when that was still a thing with AA.

Grow up people and take responsibility! I have 7 cards which I use responsibly but also have gotten the majority of my 8.5 million airline miles from “butt in seat” over 35 years.

No one, IMHO, should be able to game credit cards to get what those that earn the miles the old fashioned way can’t. Glad to see AA, Amex etc clamping down on these clowns

90%+ only had one account. Who knows where they got mailers. Some were bought, some given, some (like in my case) were directly to us, my spouse, or my next door neighbors. And like anyone, there wasn’t any “non transferable” language.

This is a fear tactic and they used one of the most egregious accounts they could find. And they *still* couldn’t prove the miles were earned incorrectly even with thousands of dollars in billable hours writing this response. They could only prove multiple AA accounts were created. They have absolutely no proof (because there is none) towards the other 90%+ and they know it.

You can’t sell miles to Citi, get paid, and then forfeit the miles rendering the cards people paid annual fees on worthless due to Citi knowingly and willingly approving cards. There’s a reason a response from Citi isn’t in this response. One might call AA unscrupulous here, no?

And Gary, what about “Bubbles”? That’s the real question.