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November 10, 2017 07:13 am GMT
Original Link: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/mashable/tech/~3/QV3g6FvmAEo/
Email bot wastes a scammer's time with mindless chit-chat
While you might be wise enough to delete or flag emails promising great wealth in far-flung countries, not everyone is so savvy to these scams.
To ensure these scammers have less time to prey on real people, New Zealand online safety organisation Netsafe has developed a tool called Re:scam.
It's an artificially intelligent email bot which engages with scammers in mindless, never-ending conversation, full of unrelated questions that waste their time — it's a similar strategy adopted by Mashable's scam crusader Scamalot. Read more...
More about Tech, Email, New Zealand, Bots, and ScamsOriginal Link: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/mashable/tech/~3/QV3g6FvmAEo/
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