A look at China's gray market of token resellers, who use accumulated identities and USDT-funded cards to obtain Claude accounts and route them through proxies (The Information)

This article highlights a gray market in China where resellers use harvested identities, prepaid/USDT-funded cards, and proxy networks to buy and resell Claude access, bypassing platform controls and geographic restrictions. For CIOs and technology leaders, the key implication is that AI services are becoming an identity-, payment-, and network-security problem as much as a software procurement issue, increasing exposure to fraud, policy violations, and supply-chain risk. IT organizations should assume that unauthorized AI access and account sharing can evade standard controls, so governance must extend to vendor verification, usage monitoring, and enforcement of regional and payment restrictions.