Stripe Blocked $300M Fraud for OpenCode, $8B for Cline
Meer_AIIT · x · 2026-08-26
Developers noticed that Stripe blocked $300M worth of fraudulent transactions for OpenCode and $8B for Cline in the past few days. The author speculates this might be due to AI tools being used for large-scale automated fraud (possibly related to model distillation), while also crediting Stripe for their excellent fraud prevention work.
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