@oragnes: Damn, a Korean dude owes Anthropic $16.62 million. This week, a Korean guy received a crazy payment demand from Anthropic's official Stripe billing system. July 7: Got the first letter saying he owed $1.669 million and payment failed. July 8: The second letter hit…

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A Korean user received erroneous massive payment demands from Anthropic's Stripe billing system, with the amount mistakenly ballooning from $1.669 million to $16.62 million, despite the user having zero actual API usage.

Damn, a Korean dude owes Anthropic $16.62 million A Korean guy received a crazy payment demand from Anthropic's official Stripe billing system this week. July 7: Received the first letter saying he owed $1.669 million and payment failed. July 8: The second letter hit, with the amount multiplied by ten to $16,627,739.70 (about 25.1 billion KRW). The guy was stunned. He checked his backend, and his API usage was clearly a perfect "zero." He initially thought it was a common Stripe phishing email, but after checking the sender address and links, everything was on Anthropic's official domain. Then his KB Kookmin Bank debit card received two consecutive payment failure SMS messages, showing that the US merchant "ANTHROP" was frantically trying to charge a huge amount, which was blocked by the bank due to exceeding the limit.
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Damn, a Korean guy owes Anthropic $16.62 million

A Korean guy received a crazy collection notice from Anthropic’s official Stripe billing system this week.

July 7: Got the first letter saying he owed $1.669 million, payment failed.

July 8: The second letter hit him, the amount multiplied by ten, becoming $16,627,739.70 (about 25.1 billion KRW).

The guy was instantly stunned. He checked his backend, and his API usage clearly showed a perfect “zero”.

He initially thought it was a common Stripe phishing email, but after checking the sender address and links, they were all Anthropic official domains.

Then his KB Kookmin Bank debit card received two consecutive payment failure messages, showing that the US merchant “ANTHROP” was desperately trying to withdraw a huge amount, which was directly blocked by the bank due to exceeding the limit.

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