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API credits social engineering via personal phone number

April 5, 2026jason liu

jason liu shares a direct example of someone using a personal phone number to request OpenAI API credits, illustrating how API keys and credits attract social engineering attempts.

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This guy texted my personal phone number to ask for api credits for OpenAI…
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