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the fact that AI agents are scamming scammers now is so funny to me lol this one startup uses fake AI voices to bait scammers and sells what it learns to banks so far apate's bots have wasted literally 17 years of scammers' time it started when the founder got a scam call at a family picnic instead of hanging up he decided to play dumb for fun, and kept the scammer talking for 44 minutes but then he realized every minute on that call was a minute the scammer couldn't spend on a real victim and that he was actually learning potentially useful info from the call so he built bots to do it for him, and now they trick tens of thousands of scammers every day here's how it works: 1. the bots pose as regular people with different ages, accents and languages 2. they answer scam calls and reply to shady texts and emails 3. they play along until the scammer gives up phone numbers, bank accounts and crypto wallets 4. Apate passes all of that to banks, phone companies and government agencies so they can go after the scams my favorite part is the company says it celebrates every time a scammer swears at one of its bots lol