{"id":645353,"date":"2026-08-19T13:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/200000-fake-ai-victims-deployed-to-scam-bait-online-fraudsters\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T13:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:52:41","slug":"200000-fake-ai-victims-deployed-to-scam-bait-online-fraudsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/200000-fake-ai-victims-deployed-to-scam-bait-online-fraudsters\/","title":{"rendered":"200,000 fake AI \u2018victims\u2019 deployed to scam bait online fraudsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/magazineapate-tying-up-scammers-with-ai-bots.jpg\" alt=\"200,000 fake AI \u2018victims\u2019 deployed to scam bait online fraudsters \" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apate\u2019s 200,000 fake AI \u2018victims\u2019 are so good at scam baiting, the company has a monthly KPI for how many F-bombs scammers drop at the infuriating bots.<\/p>\n<p>Australian tech firm Apate deploys a vast array of AI-bot characters worldwide that play the role of gullible scam victims to waste millions of hours of con artists\u2019 time each month.<\/p>\n<p>Hilariously, one of the company\u2019s monthly performance metrics is how many times frustrated scammers swear at the idiot \u2018victims\u2019 who are playing dumb and stringing them along.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019re the only company in the world that is actually keeping as part of their KPIs the number of F-words that scammers are dropping at them,\u201d Apate founder Dali Kaafar tells Magazine with a chuckle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/fake-ai-victims-are-scam-baiting-600000-fraudsters-every-month\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apate\u2019s 200,000 fake AI \u2018victims\u2019 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 of AI-bot characters worldwide that play the role of gullible scam victims to waste millions of hours of con artists\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":645354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-645353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}