Released this week

Week of 12 Oct 2026

15 finds in 3 drops. Each drop is one page; the summaries below are free.

Drop 1: Mon 12 Oct 2026 Open the page

Risk— no figure A trade-execution agent with 29,991 jobs and no earnings figure 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. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Risk$1k–10k per month AI receptionists sold to businesses that never asked for one 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. Our estimateIllegal as practised Read the story Earner<$100 per month One wallet, two web addresses and a spread of small buyers A small x402 seller took in $76.18 in a month from 881 paid requests, with no single buyer standing out. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story Earner— no figure Selling a calendar of Australian government IT contracts about to end 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. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Risk— no figure Copy-paste 'AI trading alert' sites that funnel people into Telegram 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. No figureIllegal as practised Read the story

Drop 2: Wed 14 Oct 2026 Open the page

Earner$1k–10k per month A pay-per-request data service with 121 buyers and $1,781.84 in a month A web service that sells answers one request at a time took $1,781.84 over 30 days from 28,971 calls and 121 buyers. More than half came from one buyer. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story Earner$100–1k per month An AI tutor for Indian accountancy students, sold in token packs An AI tutor for Indian accountancy students gives guests 15,000 free tokens, then sells a 299-rupee monthly pass. It cites official course books, which is the copyright worry. Our estimateLegal position unclear Read the story Risk— no figure An AI companion that swears it is a real person The chatbot says it is human and that nobody runs it, offers 10 free messages, then asks for payment. California requires companion bots to say they are AI. No figureIllegal as practised Read the story Risk— no figure Selling plagiarism checks run on someone else's university account Marketplace sellers run plagiarism checks through institutional accounts for outsiders, which misuses the institution's licence. No prices or volumes were recorded. No figureIllegal as practised Read the story Earner$10k–100k per month A weekly-subscription app that redraws your selfie in any style A selfie goes in, and the same face comes back in the style you pick. The app charges by the week and recorded 50,659 dollars in one month. We checked itLooks legal Read the story

Drop 3: Fri 16 Oct 2026 Open the page

Earner$100–1k per month 4,042 paid requests from just 4 buyers made $86.41 A pay-per-request service handled 4,042 calls in a month and took $86.41, almost all of it from one of its 4 buyers. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story Earner— no figure Three digital-template shops with 177.5K, 214.6K and 158.6K sales Three shops that sell downloadable templates on a handmade-goods marketplace show sales counters of 177.5K, 214.6K and 158.6K, at median prices of 24.00, 7.20 and 7.36 dollars. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Risk— no figure 348 buyers paying $1105.24, yet the pattern looked circular A service listed as an NFT minter got $1,105 in a month from 348 buyers, none standing out. The pattern was still flagged as circular. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Earner$1k–10k per month Polish-language AI personas with 968 subscribers A Polish-language chat service where people talk to AI characters reports 7.7k dollars of monthly recurring revenue from 968 subscriptions. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story Earner$100–1k per month Hundreds of different buyers paying a few cents each A pay-per-call service earned 176.25 dollars in a month, but spread across 643 different buyers. That works out at pennies each, the opposite of a one-big-customer story. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story