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  • A Great Use For AI: Wasting Scammers Time!

    From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Thu Feb 6 23:23:45 2025
    Hackaday
    A Great Use For AI: Wasting Scammers Time! <https://hackaday.com/2025/02/06/a-great-use-for-ai-wasting-scammers-time/>

    ... or jump directly to ...

    The Guardian
    ‘Dear, did you say pastry?’:
    meet the ‘AI granny’ driving scammers up the wall <https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/feb/04/ai-granny-scammers-phone-fraud> --
    I do not bite, I just want to play.
    --- Synchronet 3.20a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Andrew Singleton@singletona082@ctrl-c.club to tilde.meta on Thu Feb 6 17:58:31 2025
    This... this is perfect. Scammers will only stop when it stops being
    profitable for them to continue. When they realize you aren't falling
    for it they will move on. The more you can keep their focus the less 'productive' work they can do.
    On Thu, 06 Feb 2025 23:23:45 +0042
    yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:

    Hackaday
    A Great Use For AI: Wasting Scammers Time! <https://hackaday.com/2025/02/06/a-great-use-for-ai-wasting-scammers-time/>

    ... or jump directly to ...

    The Guardian
    ‘Dear, did you say pastry?’:
    meet the ‘AI granny’ driving scammers up the wall <https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/feb/04/ai-granny-scammers-phone-fraud>

    --- Synchronet 3.20a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Caden Kray@ck1998@yahoo.com to tilde.meta on Fri Feb 7 22:09:08 2025
    Andrew Singleton <singletona082@ctrl-c.club> writes:

    This... this is perfect. Scammers will only stop when it stops being profitable for them to continue. When they realize you aren't falling
    for it they will move on. The more you can keep their focus the less 'productive' work they can do.

    On Thu, 06 Feb 2025 23:23:45 +0042
    yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:

    Hackaday
    A Great Use For AI: Wasting Scammers Time!
    <https://hackaday.com/2025/02/06/a-great-use-for-ai-wasting-scammers-time/> >>
    ... or jump directly to ...

    The Guardian
    ‘Dear, did you say pastry?’:
    meet the ‘AI granny’ driving scammers up the wall
    <https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/feb/04/ai-granny-scammers-phone-fraud>

    Lol---I love it. But how do we get the scammer to reach Daisy?
    --- Synchronet 3.20a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
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