Ladies and gentlemen, it seems a new exploit has just entered the building.

This whole thing is especially dangerous simply because its basically untraceable once things change hands enough times. Someone could put 3 or even 4 stars on any piece and no one would know it wasn't just a lucky scrolling. The danger to the game is not simply the +37 or +49 or +72 stars equips, those will get removed eventually, its the godly equips that no one would dare risk enhancing 4 or 5 times, that now can get 4 stars without a major risk.
Anyone can take a look in the scania FM and see the catastrophic results of this exploit. There are tons of pieces of gear in almost every FM with at least 4 stars on them. This is game changing.

I'm going to avoid anything with stars for now just in case.