Should selling/buying .edu emails be considerd fraud?

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You've all seen the members selling .edu emails to get various different discounts from online stores. Namely Amazon Prime but registering a edu email normally requires you to be in a university although these people are selling hundreds of .edu emails which suggests they are doing the more blackhat ways which requires you lying that you are in full time education or using an existing students name in higher education.

I don''t think this is something which should be encouraged and probably should be disallowed per the forum rules because fraud is illegal in every country. What do you guys think?

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[Lauda]

Yes, but this is happening on a massive scale and is a minor problem in comparison to some other things that are going on. It isn't really worth it going after it unless theymos wants to start banning .edu salesmen.

[funsponge]

Yes, but this is happening on a massive scale and is a minor problem in comparison to some other things that are going on. It isn't really worth it going after it unless theymos wants to start banning .edu salesmen.

I would definitely agree there's bigger things to be worried about but I think theymos should look into this in further detail. Not only is it shady it also clogs up the marketplace from time to time. I've seen 3 or more people offering it at the same time.  I don't mind drawing up a list and whether people want to act upon it is up to them.

There's also some very high ranked members currently vouching for the service and therefore promoting fraud.

I just reported one to see if the moderators are interested in removing them.

[funsponge]

Looks like the moderators don't consider it fraud or breaking the rules as it was marked bad. I consider it fraud personally and those who are buying it are encouraging it and using it for gaining discounts which is equally fraud in my opinion. Would negative trust be warranted?