TREE NEWS reports: Apate has deployed 200,000 AI-powered fake ‘victims’ to engage and waste scammers’ time, with the bots proving so effective that the company tracks a monthly KPI for how often fraudsters curse at them. The initiative aims to disrupt online fraud operations by occupying scammers with futile interactions.
Apate Deploys 200K AI Bots to Scam Bait Fraudsters
AI take
Apate's approach reframes anti-fraud from blocking to attrition, using AI to impose a cost on scammers' time rather than trying to catch every victim. That matters because it targets the economics of fraud operations, not just individual transactions. The monthly KPI for scammers' frustration is a telling signal: the measure of success is adversary irritation, not dollars saved. Whether this degrades scam capacity at scale, or simply pushes operations to adapt, is the open question.
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