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AI is undoubtedly the technology of the year for hacks and scams. While scammers are busy using AI to make scams more convincing, scam baiters are fighting back with ingenious grandma-style AIs that keep scammers busy for hours on end. There have also been some spectacular busts of scam centers. What’s next, AI scammers chatting with AI scam baiters? Now, that would be entertaining.

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• Meet Daisy, the AI 'granny' chatbot that wastes the time of phone scammers
• SpaceX disables thousands of Starlink devices being used by Myanmar scam centers
• China sentences 5 to death for building, running criminal gang fraud centers in Myanmar's lawless borderlands
• Myanmar has declared a 'zero tolerance' policy for cyberscams, but the fraud goes on
• Content creators, banks use AI to waste scammers' time
• Kitboga on YouTube: I Built a Bot Army that Scams Scammers

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