{"id":22933,"date":"2026-05-03T06:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/ai-chatbot-fraud-the-gift-card-subcription-that-may-cost-you-dear\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T06:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:37:24","slug":"ai-chatbot-fraud-the-gift-card-subcription-that-may-cost-you-dear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/ai-chatbot-fraud-the-gift-card-subcription-that-may-cost-you-dear\/","title":{"rendered":"AI chatbot fraud: the \u2018gift card\u2019 subcription that may cost you dear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After subscribing to the Claude chatbot, mystery payments started to appear on one family\u2019s credit card bill. They are not alone<\/p>\n<p>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 (\u00a315) subscription seemed like money well spent.<\/p>\n<p>But then his wife spotted two $200 payments on his credit card bill for gift cards to use the artificial intelligence tool.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2026\/may\/03\/ai-claude-chatbot-gift-card-subcription-scam-mystery-payments\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3e05c557bf9e577d8536090632b8d3ad671efbf3\/500_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3e667ef699cb0e62c168e7ad4d3a8593\" title=\"AI chatbot fraud: the \u2018gift card\u2019 subcription that may cost you dear\" \/>After subscribing to the Claude chatbot, mystery payments started to appear on one family\u2019s credit card bill. They are not alone<br \/>\nDavid Duggan* was so impressed with the ability of the Claude chatbot to answer medical questions and organise family life, that a $20-a-month (\u00a315) subscription seemed like money well spent.<br \/>\nBut then his wife spotted two $200 payments on his credit card bill for gift cards to use the artificial intelligence tool. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After subscribing to the Claude chatbot, mystery payments started to appear on one family\u2019s credit card bill. They are not alone 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 (\u00a315) subscription seemed like money well spent. But then his wife &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/ai-chatbot-fraud-the-gift-card-subcription-that-may-cost-you-dear\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI chatbot fraud: the \u2018gift card\u2019 subcription that may cost you dear<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22933"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}