$200 FREE TOKEN on Opus5

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• s0n1c Member

  2:40AM edited 2:41AM

  nice scam. joined LET 10 minutes ago to promote your shitty "transfer station." Go do that on nodeseek instead

  If anything, its rerouting to some shitty model. its not the real opus 5

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• mulan Member

  2:41AM

  BRO YOU CAN LITERALLY GO GIVE IT A TRY AND FIND OUT ITS REAL OPUS5
• s0n1c Member

  2:45AM edited 2:45AM

  @mulan said:
  BRO YOU CAN LITERALLY GO GIVE IT A TRY AND FIND OUT ITS REAL OPUS5

  And i shit gold. You just need to take it to a jewler, and have them extract the raw gold from my shit. You want some?
• mulan Member

  2:47AM

  well i will give it a try, try everything huh
• rpqu Member

  3:03AM

  The average person don't need transfer station. I use openrouter just for free requests and testing the models.
• CheepCluck Member

  4:01AM

  @mulan said:
  well i will give it a try, try everything huh

  I remember when the McDonald's CEO tried his own "product".

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• forest Member

  4:07AM

  So what's the point of this scam? Email harvesting? Trying to get people to upgrade to a "pro" version some time in the future? Or what?
• tzuli Member

  4:17AM

  @forest said: So what's the point of this scam?

  .

  Neoon said:
  Sounds like one of these "transit stations" used in china.
  Basically, they give such a low price, it looks to good to be true.

  Likely using stolen accounts and credit cards.
  They sell the input/output tokens / traces to companies to train their models on.
  And you might actually be lied about the model you get.

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• aphex Member

  4:21AM

  sotamodel dot net is scammer and false thief pigs?

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• aphex Member

  4:22AM

  @forest said: So what's the point of this scam? Email harvesting? Trying to get people to upgrade to a "pro" version some time in the future? Or what?

  The transfer station ("AI API proxy") purchased with stolen credit card is MITM proxy into, so they can see all the data sent, inclusive .env files, secrets, your source code, and this is typically sold for additional profit

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• mulan Member

  4:26AM

  We give away $100 daily for sign-ups and check-ins, and we also have top-up options if you want extra credits.

  One thing we want you to know—we're a legitimate service. No funny business, no stolen cards, no shady stuff.
• forest Member

  4:29AM

  @mulan said: One thing we want you to know—we're a legitimate service. No funny business, no stolen cards, no shady stuff.

  Sure bro.

  @mulan said: So we're giving away $100,000 in frontier-model credits. Every single day.

  You're so generous. Must be a billionaire with too much time on his hands to be giving away a million dollars every 10 days just out of the goodness of your own heart.

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• aphex Member

  4:31AM

  @mulan said: One thing we want you to know—we're a legitimate service. No funny business, no stolen cards, no shady stuff.

  Your post says "community owned", how is this community owned?
• forest Member

  4:32AM

  @mulan said:
  well i will give it a try, try everything huh

  You'll give it a try? Pick your persona. Are you affiliated with them and you're the one giving the money away, or are you just an interested passer-by who found gold and is eager to share it with us?
• rpqu Member

  4:33AM

  @forest said:
  So what's the point of this scam? Email harvesting? Trying to get people to upgrade to a "pro" version some time in the future? Or what?

  Here
  https://www.chinatalk.media/p/how-to-buy-cheap-claude-tokens-in

  One Fish, Three Meals (一鱼三吃): How to Make Tokens Cheap

  The most curious thing, however, is not how to get access to Claude or Claude Code in China, but how to get it at a ridiculously low price–usually priced at 1 RMB per $1 of tokens — 70–90% below official prices. According to public discussions, there are at least three ways a transfer station makes this possible–often described as “one fish, three meals (一鱼三吃)”.

  Meal 1: The markup on access. This is possible because of the upstream resource providers who can stack proxies using at least five relatively “innocent” tactics:

  • bulk-registering API accounts to farm Anthropic’s $5 free credit
  • reselling unused quota from others’ accounts
  • corporate/educational discount arbitrage
  • “APImaxxing” — one $200 Max plan carved up among multiple users via tokens-per-hour quotas, exploiting the gap between Anthropic’s flat subscription price and the far higher cost of equivalent pay-per-token API access

  Beyond these, there is a darker upstream input: accounts purchased using stolen or fraudulent credit cards which can enter the proxy pool at effectively zero cost to the operator. How large this share is relative to the above four “innocent” tactics is difficult to verify, but the two markets likely share some infrastructure and personnel.

  Meal 2: Swapping models and inflating tokens. Because users’ inputs and model outputs are mediated through a proxy, users cannot verify which model their request was actually routed to. A user selects Opus 4.7, but the proxy can silently route to Sonnet, Haiku, or, in the worst case, GLM or Qwen, and fraudulently relabel the output. In a recent paper from Germany’s CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security (which cited my article last year on grey market!), researchers audited 17 API proxies and found widespread model swapping–API proxy access to “Gemini-2.5” achieved only 37.00% on a medical benchmark, a staggering drop from the 83.82% performance of the official API. On the user end, the tell only comes on complex tasks, when the output feels off (often referred to as 降智, or “dumbed-down”), but there is no clean way to prove it. Numerous public records highlight concerns that certain API proxies have noticeably compromised model performance. These proxies are suspected of “diluting” (掺水) services by substituting premium frontier models with inferior tiers.

  Besides model swapping, overconsumption of tokens also makes the price per token cheaper, though at the expense of driving up the total cost. Some of it is structural, as proxies that rotate accounts frequently destroy cache continuity as a side effect, forcing users to burn full-price tokens on context that would otherwise be nearly free. Some of it may be deliberate as the proxy providers try to milk more usage. The line between the two is difficult to draw from the outside.

  Meal 3: The logs are the product. This is perhaps the most important part as it intersects with data privacy and distillation. Every request that passes through a proxy — full prompt, full response, tool calls, iterations — is sitting on the proxy operator’s server. For AI coding agents, those logs contain long reasoning chains, real engineering decisions, repository context, and human-verified correct outputs. This makes them an ideal dataset for post-training: for supervised fine-tuning on real engineering tasks, and, where full reasoning traces are captured, for distilling Claude’s reasoning patterns into smaller models. Chinese developer communities assert this is happening in at least some cases, but whether proxy operators are systematically harvesting and selling these logs, and to whom, remains unverified. However, downstream distillation data does exist on the open web. Several datasets of Claude Opus 4.6 reasoning outputs circulate on HuggingFace with no clear source for the outputs. Theoretically, one can clean and sell similar distilled datasets to other model developers in China.

  The first two meals are useful for providing cheaper tokens cheaper than Anthropic officially charges, but to really make prices ridiculously low — at 10%, or even 5%, of the original price — one needs to eat the third meal. And as a Chinese saying goes, there is no free lunch in the world (天下没有免费的午餐). Several Chinese developers have revealed that the markup business is just customer acquisition, and the log harvest is the actual margin. Users are simultaneously paying customers and unpaid data producers, selling their private data to proxy operators in exchange for a low price. Some also warn of potential promotion, fraud, and even blackmail based on leaked users’ data from the proxy. To avoid privacy risks, some Chinese developers have also constructed their own Claude Code API proxy and open-sourced the guidelines.

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• Fubuki Member

  4:34AM

  

  Sure....
• Fubuki Member

  4:37AM

  
  wow
• aphex Member

  4:43AM

  @Fubuki said: wow

  Did they thing not say 200$
• Fubuki Member

  4:46AM

  @aphex said:

  @Fubuki said: wow

  Did they thing not say 200$

  it's just $100 on signup... Just use Openrouter....
• kenjing789 Member

  5:05AM

  OP also selfadmit working on the site, no Host Rep. Reported