Deep Decryption of OpenAI's Anti-Gray Market Registration: "Outsourcing" Risk Control and "Deterring" via Costs In the past few years, OpenAI's payment gateway was essentially an ATM for the gray and black markets. From the mass opening of first-month free trials on Japan’s PayPal, to the replay of Apple App Store receipts for "one ticket, multiple charges," and the forced unlocking of trials via Frida hooking on Google Play—every single pathway had actors engaging in large-scale arbitrage. However, by mid-2026, these loopholes were entirely sealed, bringing the era of "zero-dollar purchases" on the payment side to an end. But the demand did not disappear; the battlefield simply shifted. The main forces of the black market retreated from the payment side to the more foundational registration side : one strategy involves mass-registering free accounts to build a pool, accumulating small gains into a large one; another focuses on exploiting various trial events to shear free Plus quotas.…