The bot is named Daisy, and if scammers ask for personal details, she'll fake them, and keep talking.
A company in the U.K. has created an A.I. "grandmother" bot . . . just to talk to phone scammers and waste their time The bot is named Daisy . . . and the voice mimics an older person, who goads phone scammers into meandering, fruitless conversations. And it could be effective, because old folks are a common target for phone scammers. If the scammer is able to hang on long enough to insist on getting personal information like bank details, Daisy will make up fake information. It isn't something you can get buy. The company that created it is a mobile phone operator, and they put numbers leading to Daisy on a lot of lists that scammers use for leads. Hopefully the idea takes off, and comes to America.
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