{"id":17607,"date":"2025-02-04T07:39:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T06:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/dear-did-you-say-pastry-meet-the-ai-granny-driving-scammers-up-the-wall\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T07:39:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T06:39:51","slug":"dear-did-you-say-pastry-meet-the-ai-granny-driving-scammers-up-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/dear-did-you-say-pastry-meet-the-ai-granny-driving-scammers-up-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dear, did you say pastry?\u2019: meet the \u2018AI granny\u2019 driving scammers up the wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daisy\u2019s dithering frustrates phone fraudsters and wastes time they could be using to scam real people<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2025\/feb\/01\/bank-team-scam-victims-fraud\">\u2018He spent thousands\u2019: how a bank team tries to rescue scam victims<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An elderly grandmother who chats about knitting patterns, recipes for scones and the blackness of the night sky to anyone who will listen has become an unlikely tool in combatting scammers.<\/p>\n<p>Like many people, \u201cDaisy\u201d is beset with countless calls from fraudsters, who often try to take control of her computer after claiming she has been hacked.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2025\/feb\/04\/ai-granny-scammers-phone-fraud\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e692e93ba7afc5c3d70dcbf9fa8d9cccd4927e9a\/0_2_5616_3370\/master\/5616.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9667e1ce892cbe0fbfc2160366932957\" title=\"\u2018Dear, did you say pastry?\u2019: meet the \u2018AI granny\u2019 driving scammers up the wall\" \/>Daisy\u2019s dithering frustrates phone fraudsters and wastes time they could be using to scam real people<br \/>\n\u2018He spent thousands\u2019: how a bank team tries to rescue scam victims<br \/>\nAn elderly grandmother who chats about knitting patterns, recipes for scones and the blackness of the night sky to anyone who will listen has become an unlikely tool in combatting scammers.<br \/>\nLike many people, \u201cDaisy\u201d is beset with countless calls from fraudsters, who often try to take control of her computer after claiming she has been hacked. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daisy\u2019s dithering frustrates phone fraudsters and wastes time they could be using to scam real people \u2018He spent thousands\u2019: how a bank team tries to rescue scam victims An elderly grandmother who chats about knitting patterns, recipes for scones and the blackness of the night sky to anyone who will listen has become an unlikely &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/dear-did-you-say-pastry-meet-the-ai-granny-driving-scammers-up-the-wall\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Dear, did you say pastry?\u2019: meet the \u2018AI granny\u2019 driving scammers up the wall<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17608,"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\/17607"}],"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=17607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}