It takes all kinds. However, with there being a market for frequent flyer miles, you must expect the criminal element to follow.

An Australian man illegally collected 17.6 million frequent flyer points and is now in jail for fraud.

Austin Perrott, 45, pleaded guilty to nine counts of obtaining financial advantage by deception and will be in jail for six months.

Perrott worked as a Singapore Airlines customer services supervisor in Melbourne, where he used a computer irregularity to collect points on 29 accounts from frequent flyer programs.

According to court records, Perrott never used his frequent flyer points to fly but redeemed 4.3 million points, which he mostly sold to family and friends for money. via