Chinese resellers exploit account pooling and payment fraud to sell Anthropic Claude API access at 90% discounts

TIL

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667495

@GregKamradt "What you looking for? Claude Opus, Mythos? GPT5.5? Or are you into Gemini? Hey, I don't judge..."

@GregKamradt My colleague @ZilanQian wrote the piece quotes in this screenshot. Got picked up v widely. https://www.chinatalk.media/p/how-to-buy-cheap-claude-tokens-in

@GregKamradt Sir:

@rememberlenny Long live the China Boys...Communism FTW

@GregKamradt they also resell GPT codex usage at 1~5% API costs. OpenAI has 1-month free trial promo in some regions, and they harvest free accounts in a large scale

@artoriatech I wonder how often the tokens are cut with other cheap models

@GregKamradt http://openpaths.io you can stack your max plans ... not for anthropic though just openai where its allowed

I like how it's like buying food for your racing horse and it is probably laced with the dumbest crap.

@GregKamradt Check this video it will tell you everything u need to know

https://youtu.be/K3TF764d24c

@GregKamradt They harvest biometric data from third world countries and sell it on Twitter to open new accounts

https://www.chinatalk.media/p/how-to-buy-cheap-claude-tokens-in

@odysseus0z I should have listened earlier

@GregKamradt america pays $200 a month, china pays much less

@GregKamradt hearing anecdotes that there are "pure" reseller sites keeping a deep discount, but no one can say for sure. i assume most are mixed with cheap models

@GregKamradt Would people be interested to read technical deep dives into this space? Limits to what we can share regarding specifics, but the AI abuse space is fascinating

@GregKamradt There is probably a "black market" for anything expensive that can be sold for less while doing a margin.

@GregKamradt How does one get the token black market

@GregKamradt Many of Them Just Claim to sell Claude while in reality its Some cheap model saying its Opus for example

@rememberlenny digital ID is for surveillance and control. make no mistake, there is nothing open here.