Chinese students get Claude for 97% off

Chinese students get Claude for 97% off. There is an extremely dangerous method to buy GPT-5.5 and Claude API keys for basically free. It's completely legal on their side. So they're burning 100 million tokens each day for like a buck. So there are these massive gray markets on Chinese platforms called transfer stations, and they're selling Claude and GPT access for 97% off the original price. You just pay for a package and they'll send you an API key for GPT or Claude and it surprisingly works. But there's a catch that people don't talk about. These sellers aren't getting some wholesale deal from Anthropic, they are just farming free trials or pulling together stolen Claude accounts or just racking up huge unpaid bills before they get cut off. And then every single one of your prompts is getting logged, so any of your code, API keys, or any of your sensitive business information is getting stored on their side. Anthropic just found 24,000 fake accounts just using their data to train their own models. So yeah, a dollar a day sounds insane, but you might be paying an even higher price than that with your data getting compromised.