I created a new course a few weeks ago. As soon as it was approved by Udemy, 3 students bought the course, even if it wasn't indexed by Udemy and before I had made any announcements about it. How is this possible? Of course, after a short time they refunded the course. So my assumption is that there are multiple accounts and they download different parts of courses, in order to bypass the refund limit. My conclusion is that Udemy is a paradise for internet bots, I've seen this so many times. Maybe Udemy likes this, since it creates the illusion of a bigger audience.
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