Scamming the scammers: New AI fake victims to disrupt criminal business model

Kaafar, Dali (Participant)
Basta, Nardine (Participant)
Michal Kepkowski (Participant)
Ian Wood (Participant)

School of Computing

Impact: Economy impacts, Society impacts, Technology impacts

Description of impact *

Macquarie University cyber security experts have invented a multi-lingual chatbot designed to keep scammers on long fake calls and ultimately reduce the huge number of people who lose money to global criminals every day.
See Lighthouse article from 27 June 2023 with same title: https://lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/june-2023/scamming-the-scammers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=27-06-23-scamming

Category of impact	Economy impacts, Society impacts, Technology impacts
Impact level	Emerging (pre)