i get to know people are burning 100 million claude tokens for just a few dollars so i did research, and find out this
Summary
Research reveals a market where cheap Claude API access is achieved via stolen identities, deepfaked KYC, and smaller models masquerading as Claude, with all data being logged permanently—posing significant security and privacy risks.
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