200,000 fake AI ‘victims’ deployed to scam bait online fraudsters
Apate’s 200,000 fake AI ‘victims’ are so good at scam baiting, the company has a monthly KPI for how many F-bombs scammers drop at the infuriating bots.
Australian tech firm Apate is deploying 200,000 AI-bot characters to scam bait online fraudsters, according to founder Dali Kaafar. These AI characters engage scammers through phone calls, social media, and messaging platforms, wasting their time and generating performance metrics such as the number of F-bombs dropped by frustrated scammers.
In the six weeks leading up to the end of 2025, Apate's bots engaged in 600,000 scam calls for telco TPG in Australia, effectively wasting more than five hundred days of scammers' time, which equates to around thirteen million dollars saved. The AI bots also gather intelligence to help banks and telcos combat scam rings worldwide.
Apate's bots are trained on hours of recorded conversations between scam baiters and scammers, allowing them to mimic human-like behavior and counter strategies effectively.
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