aceAI chatbot fraud: the ‘gift card’ subcription that may cost you dear
David Duggan* was so impressed with the ability of the Claude chatbot to answer medical questions and organise family life, that a $20-a-month (£15) subscription seemed like money well spent. But then his wife spotted two $200 payments on his credit card bill for gift cards to use the artificial intelligence tool. Duggan, who lives on the east coast of the US, had not bought them, and immediately realised something was wrong. “My wife asked me: ‘Hey, did you make these $200 purchases?’ It was $400 in total. And the
A Claude chatbot subscriber was billed $400 for two unauthorized $200 gift card purchases for the AI tool
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-05-03
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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-0074, v2: “AI chatbot fraud: the ‘gift card’ subcription that may cost you dear.” Truvace, 2026-07-13. /record/TRV-2026-0074 (accessed at citation time). sha256 a313c922c06c1162…
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