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 ...

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 ...

Dating keeps finding new ways to make people miserable. The latest trend clogging up timelines is “bio-baiting,” yep…sorry, a new term in dating lexicon. It’s a form of soft deception where people pad ...

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 ...

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