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by precisioncoder 2479 days ago
Interestingly enough if a large amount of people replied to fishing emails they would become unprofitable as most of those people would not be tricked into sending them money. If anyone felt like a charity project a chatbot that contacted spam senders could put a lot of these scam operations out of business...
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I agree. The real solution is false victims, there to demand larger time commitments from the scammers.
Holy crap that could be a public charity. You donate $10 to help keep a service running that honeypots the scammers. Like an automated / machine-learning version of kitboga, the guy on twitch who scams people and thousands of people watch him do it.
There is automation for this for telemarketers: https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/
This is a really good idea. I bet the people on scambaiting forums would be eager to collaborate and provide convo logs etc.