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It's very difficult for people to create personal Anthropic accounts from China. Anthropic blocks Chinese bank cards, so people must pay with a foreign bank car
by tristanj 4mo ago
It's very difficult for people to create personal Anthropic accounts from China. Anthropic blocks Chinese bank cards, so people must pay with a foreign bank card, which they likely don't have. And even if they manage to set one up, they have to access it via VPN, which eventually gets the account flagged. They then have to complete identity verification, which most Chinese users are unable to pass.
There's a similar Claude resale market going on in Russia. On Funpay they are selling Claude tokens for roughly 20-30x cheaper than official Anthropic API pricing.
- jiggunjer 4mo agoAnd phone number verification too? So that's 3 hurdles to jump to just get opus.
- cute_boi 4mo agofor verification you can buy phone number for $1 easily.
- LoganDark 4mo agoDoesn't ~every phone number verification service check the telephone provider and only allow from a select whitelist of residential providers?
- fragmede 4mo agoWith esim and virtual credit card services, why would that be a blocker? Who's got a landline these days?
- SXX 4mo agoYou can easily get lots of esims for $5-10 months in EU / UK or just for free.
- lello1978 4mo agoI think it is really good to start to use CAMARA GEOLOCATION for it. A fraudstear could be intercepted if is not under the MNO antenna.
- j027 4mo agoPhone verification services exist to give you a real number for the purpose of passing this kind of verification. They even have APIs for these services. They make money since they can use the same number to verify different things.