Apate’s 200,000 fake AI ‘victims’ are so good at scam baiting, the company has a monthly KPI for how many F-bombs scammers drop at the infuriating bots. Australian tech firm Apate deploys a vast array ...

The U.S. government sanctioned a Philippine firm it said is linked to a majority of known romance bait scam websites, sites powered by trafficked workers who deceive victims into funneling money into ...

Romance baiting scams build emotional bonds over weeks before steering victims toward fake cryptocurrency investments. A recent study shows that most of this work consists of repeatable text exchanges ...

Researchers built an AI chatbot from commercially available tools, set it loose on 22 volunteers for seven days, and found it outperformed a trained human romance scammer at building trust and ...

In some cases, the emotional and psychological harm from the attack was so great that it has led to people taking their own life. Interpol is now advocating for different terminology to describe these ...

Several cryptocurrency companies have come together to prevent nearly $50m stolen via “romance baiting” (pig butchering) scammers reaching its intended destination. Blockchain analytics firm ...