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Rebekah VS's avatar

I've read that the "Nigerian Prince scam" letter didn't bother to correct it's spelling and language errors - it served as a sort of filter to ensure they attracted the uneducated and unsophisticated. Same here?

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The Vaping Trauma Surgeon's avatar

It really is a striking comment about the state of the world economy that this much human labor gets devoted to scams like this. Markets can't find anything better for people to do? At least the three card monte setup was a game!

I feel like you've slowly been circling this question with some of these posts, so I'll come out and ask it directly: What happens when AI "gets there" for this kind of thing? We've gotta be close, at least for this level of scam, right? No more scraping profile pics, no more foreign language speakers running the sockpuppets, zero marginal cost... do we all get targeted a thousand times more often? What can you even do to fight it? (Maybe scammers end up strangling any service with loose registration policies? Maybe we have to finally kill the legacy telephone system?) Do you have any concrete predictions for what that world looks like? (Nuclear war over countries failing to crack down on scamming our elderly? Haha but seriously?)

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