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Scamming the scammers: Using multi-lingual chatbots as fake victims to disrupt the business model of scam callers (techxplore.com)
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Macquarie University cyber security experts have invented a multi-lingual chatbot designed to keep scammers on long fake calls to waste their time and ultimately reduce the huge number of people who lose money to global criminals every day.

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[โ€“] Maeve@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fark (possibly Something Awful, it was forever ago). iirc, had a run of scamming the Nigerian Prince email farms. It was pretty savage, having humans send humiliating/degrading time stamped/dated photos via email, which in turn ended up on Fark. The first couple of stories seemed funny in a disturbing kind of way, and about the third or fourth column, I was really uncomfortable. Then I read about how these farms worked by trafficked human power.