Gray-market Claude accounts: offline KYC via villagers in Indonesia, cash settlement
huangyun_122 · x · 2026-11-08
A Claude gray-market account reseller traveled to villages in western Indonesia to register Claude accounts: finding local women face-to-face, completing identity verification offline, and settling in cash to bypass official KYC restrictions.
An IoT business owner known as "old A8" from Suzhou is also exploring the Sri Lanka variant — full KYC, residential IPs, and local card payments — commenting that for business people, "scale and worth are all that matter, expertise is never the barrier."
The original poster suspects this account-reselling arbitrage may already be past its peak, but it highlights the gray ecosystem born from Claude's scarcity in restricted regions.
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