That is so cool. John
Sent from my iPad > On Nov 8, 2017, at 7:00 PM, Ed Wiser <[email protected]> wrote: > > The last email I posted about here last week has Apple’s > Attention. If you get an email from a scammer pretending to > Be Apple forward it to: > [email protected] > Boing Boing > Somebody wrote an email bot to waste scammers' time > > I love this. When you get a scam email, forward it to [email protected] and a > bot will keep the scammer busy emailing back and forth with it, giving the > scammer less time to rob gullible humans. > > Introducing Re:scam – an artificially intelligent email bot made to reply to > scam emails. Re:scam wastes scammers time with a never-ending series of > questions and anecdotes so that scammers have less time to pursue real people. > > If you think you’ve received a scam email, forward it to [email protected] and > we’ll take it from there. We’ll even send you a summary of the conversations > Re:scam has had with the scammer – sometimes they can be quite funny! > > Re:scam is an initiative aimed at helping people from becoming fraud victims > by occupying the time and resources of scammers through deploying a > well-educated artificially intelligent chat bot. Instead of junking or > deleting a scam email, you can now forward it to Re:scam who will continue > the conversation indefinitely – or until the scammer stops replying. > > Re:scam can take on multiple personas, imitating real human tendencies with > humour and grammatical errors, and can engage with infinite scammers at once, > meaning it can continue an email conversation for as long as possible. > Re:scam will turn the table on scammers by wasting their time, and ultimately > damage the profits for scammers. > > > > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__boingboing.net_2017_11_08_somebody-2Dwrote-2Dan-2Demail-2Dbot-2Dto.html&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=vO1YBu5_X5TjHPnE7dYJodwDhQkXp7VHe-tK-dANeko&s=DCzJWKETbCWXzjxpIP8Is8YoGx5JRyutJMU6d9i54Q8&e= > Sent with Reeder > > > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_macgroup-40erdos.math.louisville.edu_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=vO1YBu5_X5TjHPnE7dYJodwDhQkXp7VHe-tK-dANeko&s=0FQoWLky22pNcDnRIZZf-lEHditST31cR9DZiS5mpMw&e=> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
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