Scammers are using a $249 website toolkit to sell unverified AI subscriptions worth up to $2,000 a year, and a genuine Google sign-in screen is what makes the sites convincing. Malwarebytes found more than 100 websites built this way, all tied to the same toolkit and closely related developer details. The network includes sites that copy the names of existing products, among them GPT-6 Astra, DaVinci Resolve, PixAI, and OpenCut.
Scammers use genuine Google sign-ins to sell costly, unverified AI subscriptions
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