Re: [MacGroup] Somebody wrote an email bot to waste scammers' time

[John Robinson]

That is so cool.  

John

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> On Nov 8, 2017, at 7:00 PM, Ed Wiser  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: 
> reportphish...@apple.com
> Boing Boing
> Somebody wrote an email bot to waste scammers' time
> 
> I love this. When you get a scam email, forward it to m...@rescam.org 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 m...@rescam.org 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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[MacGroup] Somebody wrote an email bot to waste scammers' time

[Ed Wiser]

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: 
reportphish...@apple.com
Boing Boing
Somebody wrote an email bot to waste scammers' time
 
I love this. When you get a scam email, forward it to m...@rescam.org 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 m...@rescam.org 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.




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