ChatPRD founder battles token fraud costing tens of thousands of dollars
petergyang · x · 2026-11-10
ChatPRD founder Claire Vo says she spends 90% of her time fighting increasingly creative international token fraud operations—mostly stealing Opus tokens via resold promo codes and the window between trial start and fraud alerts—costing tens of thousands of dollars and getting worse daily, to the point it makes her want to shut down the company.
The company remains profitable and free-tier friendly (a top-3 free writing GPT on ChatGPT, used by millions of PMs, engineers, and founders). Peter Yang chimed in that scammers also stole a batch of his Grok codes, asking whether startups or tools are working on this—token fraud defense is becoming a real pain point for AI app builders.
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