Inside the Underground Relay Market Fueling Token Resellers and Fraud

An Inside Look at the Token Reseller Market

I discovered a massive underground ecosystem where operators resell AI model access at deep discounts using stolen or abused accounts. This market relies on a four-layer structure, from virtual credit card merchants to end-user developers, often leveraging open-source tools like one-api. Buyers use these cheap tokens for inference and model distillation, while providers struggle with a constant cat-and-mouse game of fraud detection.