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Resellers farm free AI trial promo codes in fraud schemes

Scammers have also stolen Grok Bot codes from users, showing trial abuse reaches consumer AI tools.

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claire vo 🖤Lead source
if you're curious the kind of creative fraud we see, here are some examples: 1. chinese reseller that farms promo codes for trial access (typically sold in bundles) then bizarrely wraps their authenticated session and proxies it to their own app, where they resell it -- not very successfully -- as their own app. they run outlook email signups on a loop when they exhaust promo or trial limits. we have evidence they're doing this to companies like @linear @cognition @granola @spacexai and @gumloop as well. They sell these through AliPay and their dispatcher loops in a promo code and routes to their "paying" users. they auto rotate through these tools to keep spend under the trial or promo limits. 2. egyptian team building fortnite and roblox maps and slamming our most expensive models in…
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This kind of fraud is a massive problem and I'm glad @clairevo is shining a light on it. I don't have a successful SaaS but had a bunch of Grok Bot codes stolen from me as well by scammers. Wonder if there are great startups or tools working to solve this?
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