{
  "slug": "denial-of-wallet",
  "title": "Your free tier is a payment terminal for someone else",
  "summary": "A denial of wallet attack bills your abuse to you. Rate limits protect uptime and ignore cost. Here is the control that restores a generous free tier.",
  "lede": "A denial of wallet attack does not take your service down. It runs your service exactly as designed, at scale, and sends you the invoice. Rate limits were built to protect uptime, and uptime is not the thing being attacked.",
  "date": "2026-09-16",
  "reading_time": "18 min read",
  "category": "Platforms",
  "tags": [
    "denial of wallet",
    "free tier abuse",
    "trial abuse",
    "fake signups",
    "bot signups",
    "verified human signup",
    "SaaS fraud"
  ],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Denial%20Of%20Wallet/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/denial-of-wallet.html",
  "wordcount": 4954,
  "related": [
    "one-human-one-review",
    "the-bot-tax",
    "how-to-prove-human-2026"
  ],
  "schema": "Article"
}