At first, the word bonus hunter meant that when some poor people helped the rich to herd sheep, they grabbed some wool from these sheep, grabbed some wool from each sheep, and then hoarded it to weave clothes. However, nowadays, bonus hunter is mainly used by some people on the Internet to make money through coupon loopholes. This bonus hunter is not necessarily illegal. If you use these coupons within the scope stipulated in the coupons, it won't be illegal.
College students were sentenced for using KFC coupon loopholes to obtain illegal income.
This college student is a college student in Jiangsu Province. In an experience of eating KFC, he found a loophole in the use of KFC coupons, so he shared this method with other students. Moreover, he also defrauded many KFC packages in this way, and then sold them at low prices to obtain illegal income. In the process, he caused losses of more than 58,000 yuan to KFC, and others who shared through him caused losses ranging from 890,000 to 47,000. In this regard, they were finally convicted of fraud and taught the methods of crime. They were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from two years and six months to one year and three months, and fined.
It is illegal because it uses loopholes in the merchant system to cheat.
As mentioned above, not all bonus hunter are illegal, and it is not illegal to use coupons to get some benefits if they are within the rules stipulated by the merchants. However, if hackers are used to collect loopholes in the platform and use the loopholes in merchant coupons to register crazily to obtain huge profits, resulting in hundreds of thousands, millions or even more losses, it will constitute crimes such as theft and fraud. In this regard, once the platform is held accountable, bonus hunter people will be punished by law. In this regard, we should treat bonus hunter correctly, but we have not profited illegally from it.