Week of 2026-10-12

This week's drop 1:

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A trade-execution agent with 29,991 jobs and no earnings figure

No figureLegal position unclear

A trade-execution agent on the Virtuals registry shows 3,129 buyers and a near-perfect success rate. Neither says how much the agent itself kept.

The money
no figure
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No figure
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AI receptionists sold to businesses that never asked for one

Our estimateIllegal as practised

Agencies text each target business a demo page named after it. Cold texting without consent breaks anti-spam laws in many places, such as Australia's. The demo itself is lawful.

  • GoHighLevel vendor The demo pages we examined run on a GoHighLevel (LeadConnector) backend. Source: Public scans of the per-business demo pages on urlscan.io
The money
1k to 10k USD a month
How sure we are
Our estimate
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Earners

One wallet, two web addresses and a spread of small buyers

We checked itLegal position unclear

A small x402 seller took in $76.18 in a month from 881 paid requests, with no single buyer standing out.

The money
under 100 USD a month
How sure we are
We checked it
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Selling a calendar of Australian government IT contracts about to end

No figureLegal position unclear

Over 260 IT contracts worth 100k or more end within about six months, and the end dates are public. Few seem to sort them for small suppliers.

  • AusTender platform Its public contract notices include value, supplier and end dates for awarded contracts. Source: AusTender, the Australian government's public contract notices
The money
no figure
How sure we are
No figure
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Copy-paste 'AI trading alert' sites that funnel people into Telegram

No figureIllegal as practised

Identical alert sites sit on 4 random hosts and steer visitors into Telegram groups. Financial advice needs a licence in many countries, including Australia, and what they earn is unknown.

The money
no figure
How sure we are
No figure
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  • What it would take to try something similar
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