The long conversations that reveal how scammers work

Online scammers often take weeks to build trust before making a move, which makes their work hard to study. A research team from UC San Diego built a system that does the patient work of talking to scammers at scale, and the result offers a look into how long game fraud unfolds. Their system, called CHATTERBOX, uses synthetic personas, an LLM driven conversational engine, and human oversight to gather conversations that stretch across platforms and … More →

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