Week of 2026-09-07

This week's drop 3:

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Apps that whisper answers to job candidates during live interviews

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Overlays feed AI answers to a candidate mid-interview, from 4.99 USD a week. The people misled are the employers. What the sellers earn is unknown.

  • Razorpay vendor Its payment checkout was seen on an interview-copilot site we examined. Source: Public fingerprinting of the site's checkout
  • Paystack vendor Its payment checkout was seen on an interview-copilot site we examined. Source: Public fingerprinting of the site's checkout
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A marketplace agent with 187 buyers and $1,297.40 earned

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A registry-listed agent shows 1,253 jobs from 187 buyers, $1,297.40 earned over its life, and a success rate of 93.23 percent.

  • Virtuals platform Runs the ACP registry that publicly lists each agent's jobs, buyers, success rate and earnings. Source: Virtuals ACP registry capture, read 2026-10-26
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An airport-code lookup that took $106.62 from 14 buyers

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A lookup for airport codes took $106.62 over 30 days from 662 calls and 14 buyers. Most of it came from one buyer.

The money
100 to 1k USD a month
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2 buyers, 934 requests, and almost all the money from one

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A small x402 seller took in $85.03 in a month, but only 2 buyers were seen, and nearly all of the money came from one.

The money
under 100 USD a month
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Finding networks of near-identical websites to see where bets are placed

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Groups of near-identical sites reveal what operators are betting on. The research found 8 groups of 5 or more sites, but most appear in one burst and then stop growing.

  • MCP registry platform Its public listing of recently updated sites was the main source for finding site groups. Source: The official MCP registry's public listing
  • x402 Bazaar platform Its public listing shows 24 groups of 5 or more sellers sharing one payment address. Source: The x402 Bazaar public listing
  • Cloudflare vendor The 25 sites of one group share a single Cloudflare nameserver pair. Source: Public DNS records
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