{"id":15051,"date":"2024-07-06T20:37:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T18:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/06\/real-criminals-fake-victims-how-chatbots-are-being-deployed-in-the-global-fight-against-phone-scammers\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T20:37:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T18:37:32","slug":"real-criminals-fake-victims-how-chatbots-are-being-deployed-in-the-global-fight-against-phone-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/06\/real-criminals-fake-victims-how-chatbots-are-being-deployed-in-the-global-fight-against-phone-scammers\/","title":{"rendered":"Real criminals, fake victims: how chatbots are being deployed in the global fight against phone scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New scambaiting AI technology Apate aims to keep scammers on the line while collecting data that could help disrupt their business model<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A scammer calls, and asks for a passcode. Malcolm, an elderly man with an English accent, is confused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s this business you\u2019re talking about?\u201d Malcolm asks.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/dec\/21\/sign-up-for-five-great-reads-guardian-australias-wrap-of-our-best-summer-stories\">Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/jul\/07\/ai-chatbots-phone-scams\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9692b3ad4cc86f4263dc81a7e78b08fc686d0785\/722_244_4288_2574\/master\/4288.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=511e2edc9a7c1a7f95d275987a56b30c\" title=\"Real criminals, fake victims: how chatbots are being deployed in the global fight against phone scammers\" \/>New scambaiting AI technology Apate aims to keep scammers on the line while collecting data that could help disrupt their business model<br \/>\nGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>A scammer calls, and asks for a passcode. Malcolm, an elderly man with an English accent, is confused.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat\u2019s this business you\u2019re talking about?\u201d Malcolm asks.<br \/>\nSign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New scambaiting AI technology Apate aims to keep scammers on the line while collecting data that could help disrupt their business model Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast A scammer calls, and asks for a passcode. Malcolm, an elderly man with an English accent, is confused. \u201cWhat\u2019s this &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/06\/real-criminals-fake-victims-how-chatbots-are-being-deployed-in-the-global-fight-against-phone-scammers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Real criminals, fake victims: how chatbots are being deployed in the global fight against phone scammers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}