• NutWrench@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Using AI lets scammers target hundreds of people at once and choose likely candidates for a pig-butchering scam (rich, dumb, vulnerable, etc). Once the AI finds one, it passes the phone number on to a human scammer for further exploitation.

    It’s like the old war-dialers that would dial hundreds of people and pass along the call when they got an answer from a real human being.