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  • Why not use AI to detect and avoid scams?

    As if people weren't scamming before AI, with the billions of dollars seized from the Chinese scam dungeons in Cambodia [0] where they had kidnapped people and tied them to computers (including a few deaths, and another wave of arrests just recently)

    Scammers gonna scam. At least if they can use AI for it then maybe they'll kidnap fewer people

    [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45580981

    by Razengan
  • Having run a small social media SaaS for a while, the amount of AI bots (and I say AI bots because the comments and direct messages sent by them definitely read like AI), was staggering.

    I'm thankful for Cloudflare and I don't think I would have had the resources to deal with it any other way.

    by navs
  • Coincidentally it’s also the biggest scam in the west. Wait till the IPO and the inevitable 80% stock drop of OpenAI ….
    by usernametaken29
  • Got a scam call yesterday morning. An American-ish accent, but quite rusty, I suspected they were using an AI voice changer.

    They said "Am I speaking to <my full name>?". I did not answer that and instead asked what company they were calling from, then they immediately hung up.

    I guess people who ask that initial question are disqualified for their scam, they're looking for more gullible folks.

    by aussieguy1234
  • Here's an amazing study from Microsoft which I recall from back in the day (PDF):

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

    Edit: Recalled -> Recall

    by karim79
  • I'm surprised it's only half

    There's a joke about certain princes here but I just feel bad for the people getting scammed since I know firsthand how realistic these things can seem

    by restlessforge
  • While he was still living on his own, my grandfather struggled with people sending him scam letters in the mail. He sent a meaningful amount of money to obvious scams despite being a shrewd businessman all his life. AI will take these cons to another level.

    Is there any way to help the elderly navigate this shift?

    by cheriot
  • African scammers used to be small scale or lone wolf type of operations. You had scammers like Hushpuppi etc who become celebrities John Gotti style. Now the Chinese have taken over , they are moving from places like Malaysia and setting up these huge scam compounds , they combine the legitimate businesses (construction, import/export) with gambling and these crypto, mobile money and pig butchering scams. This is only going to grow , no one is forced into these things, the youth willing seek work at these places, they are recruited, trained and given the tools they would never afford on their own. You have Chinese labs setup with Servers, high speed internet, USSD capture machines. Our governments won’t and do not want to do crap, the officials get the bribes , the youth get work and everyone is looking the other way. So yeah , this is only going to get worse.
    by madradavid

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