Macquarie University cyber security experts have invented a multi-lingual chatbot designed to keep scammers on long fake calls to waste their time and ultimately reduce the huge number of people who lose money to global criminals every day.
I really want to hear recordings of these conversations. I think it’d be fascinating.
Fark (possibly Something Awful, it was forever ago). iirc, had a run of scamming the Nigerian Prince email farms. It was pretty savage, having humans send humiliating/degrading time stamped/dated photos via email, which in turn ended up on Fark. The first couple of stories seemed funny in a disturbing kind of way, and about the third or fourth column, I was really uncomfortable. Then I read about how these farms worked by trafficked human power.
There’s also https://www.419eater.com/
https://aff.419eater.com/viewforum.php?f=29&sid=ba36f1c70b17dbbfaa5cc6315689443e
people have been scam baiting for ages. my favorite is the one where they got them to do the dead parrot sketch
Not the same thing, but an older site/service where they would just randomize various automated responses during gaps in the conversation to keep the person on the phone. They have a bunch of recordings.