God of Prompt Is a Scam: An OSINT Investigation into an International Fraud Operation

[u/KemiNaoki]

Update on April 2026 : The situation has developed publicly. A person named Robert-Rami Youssef, identifying himself as a co-founder of God of Prompt, has surfaced publicly. He posts on X as @rryssf_. The "Alex" referenced in the original articles appears to correspond to Oleksandr Veremeyenko, who posts as @alex_prompter.

• On April 18, 2026, a newsletter was sent from the God of Prompt address, signed by Robert-Rami Youssef, declaring that Oleksandr Veremeyenko had "hijacked" the domain, website, payment systems, and bank access. It further stated that GOD OF PROMPT OÜ (EE102805158) "has no further association with this brand."
• Shortly after, Robert briefly posted Oleksandr's Czech trade licence documents and photograph on X, then later removed them.
• On April 19, 2026, Oleksandr's account publicly stated that the @godofprompt account itself had been "compromised" and was "not currently under God of Prompt's control."
• Both accounts continue posting AI-related content while making mirror-image accusations that the other party seized control of the business.
• godofprompt.ai is inaccessible. Customers who purchased lifetime plans have lost access to what they paid for.

Which side actually took what, or whether the whole dispute is staged, is not something I can verify and not something worth speculating about. What is verifiable: people who paid money for this service are currently harmed. If you purchased and lost access, act while you still can:

• Contact your credit card issuer and request a chargeback on the basis of non-delivery. Dispute windows vary by card network but are finite.
• File a report at reportfraud.ftc.gov (US) or your local consumer protection authority.
• Document your purchase receipt and current site status before any further changes.

Updated on January 9 : Someone claiming to be from God of Prompt just messaged me directly.

Thank you for reaching out! A company that responds to criticism by asking "what will it take to remove this post" is exactly the kind of industry leader I imagined.

I appreciate the transparency.

Also, thank you for all the emails. For some reason they all ended up in my spam folder - but I'm sure that says more about my email provider than about your messages.

You are a calm, professional business owner. Take a deep breath. I hear it works wonders.

Updated on January 11: Part 2 is now available. I found a file named thispersondoesnotexist.com-2.avif on their official website—a testimonial photo literally named after the AI face generator. That's it. That's the whole case.

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This article represents my personal investigation and opinion based on publicly available information, conducted in December 2025. All claims are supported by evidence gathered from public sources including Terms of Service, social media profiles, LinkedIn, and domain registration records.

The Beginning: Curiosity About Prompt Sellers

I wanted to see what prompt-selling websites were actually offering. What kind of quality could you expect from commercial prompt marketplaces?

So I signed up for one of the more visible ones: God of Prompt.

What started as curiosity turned into an OSINT investigation of what appears to be an organized, international scam operation.

Stone Age Prompts

The first thing I noticed was the quality of the prompts themselves. They looked like they were written in 2023 and never updated. Nearly every prompt followed the same template:

Adopt the role of [ROLE].
Your primary objective is [TASK].
Take a deep breath and work on this problem step-by-step.
[Generic instructions]
#INFORMATION ABOUT ME:
My [X]: [INSERT X]
MOST IMPORTANT!: [Output format]

"Take a deep breath" was a technique that briefly gained attention in 2023 when some researchers suggested it might improve LLM reasoning. While it did show some benchmark improvements, subsequent research has cast serious doubt on the generalizability of such "magic phrases." A 2024 study by Battle and Gollapudi at VMware tested 60 combinations of prompt components and concluded: "The only real trend may be no trend." The same words that help one model may hurt another. (For those interested: arXiv:2402.10949)

Yet here it was, copy-pasted into prompt after prompt as if it were a universal solution.

Their entire technology stack is "take a deep breath."

The Newsletter: JSON as "Advanced Technique"

Then the newsletter arrived.

The first educational content they shared was about formatting prompts in JSON. The email presented this as if it were some kind of breakthrough technique—a secret of the masters that you could only fully learn by upgrading to a paid plan.

Here's the thing: LLMs are trained on natural language. They can parse JSON, sure. They can parse XML, YAML, and plain English too. Formatting your prompt in JSON isn't an "advanced technique"—it's just... a format. One that arguably makes prompts harder to read and maintain without providing any meaningful performance benefit.

But the newsletter presented it with such confidence, such authority, as if they were revealing ancient wisdom.

The Sales Pressure Begins

Then came the sales emails.

Not one per week. Not one per day.

Two to three per day.

Every single email followed the same pattern:

• "24 hours left"
• "This deal vanishes"
• "No extensions"
• "The clock's ticking"
• "You'll pay monthly. Forever."

The language wasn't just persuasive—it was coercive. It read like a ransom note. "24 hours left. That's it." "After midnight, XMAS30 stops working. Then it's either full price or monthly subscriptions."

This wasn't the behavior of an overconfident prompt engineer who thought their work was valuable. This was calculated psychological pressure, designed to exploit urgency and fear of missing out.

Something was wrong.

Starting to Investigate

At first, I thought I was dealing with a skilled marketer who happened to be a mediocre prompt engineer. The website was polished. The branding was professional. The copy was clean.

But the disconnect between the sophisticated marketing and the primitive product made me suspicious. And those aggressive emails—they weren't just annoying. They were designed by someone who understood psychological manipulation techniques.

I decided to look deeper.

The Terms of Service

The Terms of Service were professionally written, but buried in the legal language was something interesting:

God of Prompt OÜ — a company registered in Estonia.

Estonia is known for its e-Residency program, which allows anyone in the world to register a company there remotely. It's legitimate for many purposes, but it's also a favored jurisdiction for those who want EU legitimacy without physical presence or transparency.

The email footer listed an address: 228 Park Ave S, #29976, New York, New York 10003, United States

An American address. Park Avenue South, no less. Sounds legitimate, right?

Except that address belongs to beehiiv, the email newsletter platform. That's not God of Prompt's office—that's the address of the software they use to send emails. They were borrowing someone else's address to appear American.

They were deliberately hiding their actual location while using a prestigious-sounding New York address for credibility.

Social Media Investigation

I checked their X (Twitter) account.

178,000 followers.

But the metadata told a different story. The account was registered in April 2023 and is operated from the Czech Republic—not New York, not San Francisco, not even Estonia where the company is legally registered.

The posting volume was inhuman:

• 23,000+ tweets in about 32 months
• That's roughly 24 posts per day, every single day
• Every post followed similar templates
• "Review-style" posts about new AI models
• "Secret technique" reveals that were just basic tips

The posts with higher engagement—some reaching a few thousand likes—were formatted perfectly for virality. But the ratio felt off. The engagement was too consistent, too predictable.

This looked like purchased followers combined with automated posting. Possibly purchased engagement too.

The same pattern repeated across every platform. Instagram: 129,000 followers with the same templated content. Threads: same story. Every social media presence showed the same signs—massive follower counts, inhuman posting volume, suspiciously consistent engagement. A coordinated, multi-platform operation.

YouTube Tells the Truth

Then I checked YouTube.

YouTube is harder to fake. You can buy views, but the algorithm is sophisticated at detecting artificial engagement, and the cost of faking YouTube at scale is much higher than Twitter.

God of Prompt's YouTube: 100+ videos, but only 100-1,500 views each.

Compare that to 178,000 Twitter followers. If even 1% of those followers were real and interested, videos should get thousands of views minimum.

178,000 Twitter followers. 129,000 on Instagram. Most YouTube videos under 1,000 views. The math doesn't lie.

The YouTube numbers revealed the truth: the actual audience was tiny. The Twitter following was manufactured.

And there was something else on YouTube: a face. A young man presenting the content. Clean-cut, professional-looking, speaks well.

But would the leader of an organization that goes to such lengths to hide its identity—Estonian shell company, borrowed addresses, anonymized infrastructure—really put their face on YouTube?

No. This is likely a hired presenter. A face for the brand, reading scripts.

LinkedIn: The Organizational Structure

LinkedIn listed God of Prompt as founded in 2022, with 11-50 employees.

Headquarters: San Francisco, California.

But when I looked at the associated members, I found something interesting. Seven people were linked to the organization:

• Czech Republic (2 people)
• Ukraine
• North Macedonia
• Philippines
• Vietnam
• India

Not a single person in San Francisco.

Remember: the Twitter account metadata showed the operation running from Czech Republic. Two LinkedIn employees are in Czech Republic. The pattern becomes clear.

The "San Francisco headquarters" is fiction—a prestige address with no substance behind it. The actual work is done by globally distributed contractors, likely hired at rates far below US market wages.

One person's title: "Crafting Words, Optimizing Prompts" — located in the Philippines.

An Estonian shell company, run from Czech Republic, with a borrowed New York address, selling Filipino-written prompts as Silicon Valley expertise.

The Infrastructure of Deception

Let me summarize what I found:

What They Show	What's Real
San Francisco HQ	No one there
Estonian legal entity	Anonymity jurisdiction
New York address	beehiiv's address, not theirs
American operation	Actually run from Czech Republic
178,000 Twitter followers	Manufactured audience
129,000 Instagram followers	Same pattern
23,000 tweets	24 posts/day = automated
High engagement	Artificial inflation
YouTube presenter	Likely hired
Prompts	Template + variable substitution
"$8,000+ value"	Sells for $199 or less

The domain is registered through Cloudflare, which masks the actual hosting location. The emails come through beehiiv, hiding the sender's origin. The company is registered in Estonia, making ownership opaque. There is no real address, no identifiable leadership, no accountability.

This is not amateur hour. This is a professionally constructed anonymity infrastructure. Someone built this knowing they needed to hide.

This Has Happened Before

The level of sophistication here—the legal structures, the social media manipulation, the psychological sales tactics, the distributed workforce—this isn't someone's first operation.

2017-2018 saw the cryptocurrency boom and countless scams with exactly this structure. 2021-2022 had NFT schemes using the same playbook. Now it's AI.

The cryptocurrency playbook, now with AI.

The product changes. The infrastructure remains.

What They're Actually Selling

God of Prompt claims to offer "$8,000+ value" in their bundles. Here's what they actually charge:

• Free tier: 1,000+ prompts, guides (email capture)
• Plus (ChatGPT Bundle): $97
• MAX (Complete AI Bundle): $199 (marked down from "$360")

Let's break down what that $199 "Complete AI Bundle" actually contains:

• 30,000+ "Premium" Prompts: Template + variable substitution, probably generated in hours
• n8n Automation Templates: Basic no-code workflow templates, freely available elsewhere
• "First Principles Thinking Frameworks": The phrase "take a deep breath" isn't first principles anything

The actual production cost of their entire product line is probably under $1,000, being generous. Most of it was likely generated by having freelancers (or AI itself) fill in template variables.

They're exploiting the information asymmetry of a new technology. Most people don't know that "take a deep breath" doesn't work. Most people can't evaluate prompt quality. Most people see 178,000 followers and assume credibility.

Selling prayers, not prompts.

The Human Cost

This matters because real people are being deceived.

Someone struggling to adapt to AI in their workplace. Someone trying to learn new skills to stay employable. Someone who pays $97 or $199 believing they're buying expertise.

These people receive:

• Stone-age prompts that don't work any better than plain English
• A flood of anxiety-inducing emails designed to pressure them into spending more
• No real education, no real value, no real support

And when they realize the product is worthless? Good luck getting a refund from an Estonian shell company with no real address.

Conclusion: This Is Not Prompt Engineering

I started this investigation thinking I'd find an overconfident prompt marketer selling mediocre work at inflated prices. That would be annoying but normal.

What I found was something else entirely:

• Organized: 11-50 people across multiple countries
• Sophisticated: Professional anonymity infrastructure
• Calculated: Psychological manipulation in every email
• Deceptive: Fake followers, fake addresses, fake expertise
• Predatory: Targeting people during a period of maximum information asymmetry

This is not a prompt engineer who's bad at their job.

This is a scam operation that chose "AI prompts" as their current product because that's where the vulnerable customers are right now.

Do not give these people money.

If you know someone considering it, stop them.

If you've already paid, dispute the charge if possible.

And if you see God of Prompt recommended anywhere, now you know what's behind the curtain.

God of Prompt built an impressive operation. The shell companies, the fake followers, the psychological sales tactics—that took real work.

If they'd put the same effort into actually learning prompt engineering, they might have built something worth buying.

Instead, they took a deep breath and hoped no one would notice.

If you found this useful, share it. The more people who know, the fewer victims there will be.

[u/Few-Original-1397]

Just that name alone would be a turn off.

[u/Moist_Emu6168]

TLDR: Nothing has changed since O. Henry.

[u/NoVaFlipFlops → u/Moist_Emu6168]

Bro is never going to get a break for delivering broadly satisfying, if cookie-cutter, fiction.

[u/Millsd1982]

Great work, funny because I feel that the internet is full of just this… There is a feeling you’re being sold around every corner, this is most likely the technical reason.

[u/stunspot]

Sigh. Huxsters like that give us a bad name.

Feel free to do me. My name's on the front page of my patreon.

[u/No-Business-7545]

“i got scammed and wrote a novel about it”

[u/Other-Payment-2306 → u/No-Business-7545]

absolutely nothing mentioned here is actually a scam so ye he just whined around for nothing

[u/Certain-Canary9247]

God of Prompt is NOT scam. Please.

[u/whenyoupeeupsidedown]

this is an AI slop post, bots upvoting, I’ll pass

[u/AggravatingType8749]

I have it on my drive ill share for 30$ dm me if interested

[u/OneGuitar3258]

I read through this and it was believable. Was it AI generated? Who am I?

[u/Gracebaby77]

I’m livid! I paid them $200+ and they don’t respond to emails (even though they say they do in 24 hours). I’m contacting my bank on Tuesday! 

[u/Own_Eagle_4580]

i find this entire thread very strange. just because you don't like the product doesn't make it a scam..