This Chatbot Is Wasting Scammers Time, Which Is Great
At some point, we were all contacted by a Nigerian prince, a long-lost uncle, or some guy who just can’t get a bank account, promising that if we just make one small bank transfer, we’ll have millions in our account to in the morning.
Admittedly, I answered some of them for fun, just to see where the conversation might go. As reported by The Verge , now one security firm has created a chatbot that allows you to respond to all those pesky scam messages and waste their time like they did yours by sending an email in the first place.
To use it, you just need to forward the first offensive message to [email protected] . When you do this, the proxy email will start responding to the scammer’s emails for you. And the reviews look quite real.
Rescam has several of these listed on their site . For example, this was the chatbot’s first response to a bank transfer request.
It is easy to use and speaks enough to keep a conversation going without you actually using a bot to talk.