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Apate.ai uses AI agents to trap scammers, learning from 2.5 million conversations

Oct 15, 2026 · Issue 11 · 1 source, 1 article

Apate.ai uses AI agents to keep scammers engaged and collects data from 2.5 million conversations. According to the company, more than $632 million of that came from investment scams, in which the FBI says fraudsters use AI.

Who is affected and how

banking professional
Data from scammer conversations can be used to train fraud-detection models.

Sources

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