THE CATFISHING AI ROBOTS ARE HERE!
AI-GENERATED CRIME IS THE FUTURE. A ROBOT MILF TRIED TO SCAM ME WITH FLIRTY AI TEXT.
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Apr. 1, 2025
AI-generated crime is coming to your mobile phone.
In the 20th Century, police learned to use emerging technology to catch criminals. Criminals are turning the tables in the 21st Century, using AI to commit crimes for them. In what promises to be an AI-generated crime wave, tech-savvy scammers have begun using AI to Catfish via text messages that automatically talk back.
"Do you have a few minutes to chat?," was the seemingly innocent text message I received in early March that revealed the new technological twist in a very old game.
Since I'm an investigative journalist who freely shares his mobile telephone number and talks regularly with anonymous and confidential sources who value their secrecy, I get text messages like this all the time, from numbers I don’t know.
In fact, I was covering a strike by New York's prison guards at the time. A lot of the striking guards wanted to talk, but feared being fired if they were named. So I was actually expecting a few messages like this. I was hoping for them.
Instead of texting back, I called the number directly. That's when I got my first clue the sender might be a machine.
"Your call cannot be completed. The person you are trying to call and configured their account not to receive calls," or something like that an automated voice told me.
I checked the area-code: Canada. Maybe that's why I couldn't call the number back. Maybe it wasn't the number. Maybe it was my cheap burner phone.
"Yes tried to call you but it won't let me," I texted back.
A minute later, I got a response.
"Are you coach Lisa? I'm Mia," the robot wrote.
"I'm JB," I texted back to see what this thing was about.
This time, the robot waited 15 minutes to respond.
"I'm so sorry. I just found out that two nummbers are wrong, I hope I didn't bother you," it texted back.
The robot intentionally misspelled "numbers" to create the appearance of human error, making it a fairly sophisticated program that took affirmative steps to conceal its deceit.
Now I waited a long time to respond. I wanted to see if whatever it was would press the fake conversation. But it waited until I texted “K” it back three hours later to reply.
"Thank for understanding. It's nice to talk to polite people,” it texted back four minutes later.
Now I knew for sure it was a robot texting me.
"My name is Mia," the robot texted right after, this time without being prompted by a response. "I live in the US LA. I'm from Slovenia. I'm 39 years old. What about you?"
I didn't wait to send my reply. I sent it right away.
"If I can't call you you're not real," I texted.
"What do you mean,?” the robot answered.
I didn't reply. Neither did the robot.