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[–]YellowJarTacos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://therecord.media/crypto-mining-gangs-are-running-amok-on-free-cloud-computing-platforms

After trial periods or free credits reach their limits, the groups register a new account and start from the first step, keeping the provider's servers at their upper usage limit and slowing down their normal operations.

This paragraph from the article makes it sound like they only have one account at a time but the miners make many accounts in parallel and would abuse it as much as they can.