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AI Agents Go Undercover on Scammers
Apate sends AI agents undercover as potential victims to engage scammers across calls, messages and social media. The unusual hook is turning scam-baiting into a source of actionable intelligence: the agents keep fraudsters talking and uncover details that banks and telecoms can use to disrupt scams.
Why it worked: It flipped the usual narrative with a measurable counterattack—thousands of bots wasting 17 years of scammer time and surfacing bank accounts, wallets and numbers.
The lesson: Consider pitching a controlled ‘sting’ that quantifies disruption—set agents or decoys loose, capture hard metrics, then package the before/after impact.
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How this story spread across the media
| Publication | Headline | Date |
|---|---|---|
| techcrunch.com | Apate sends AI agents undercover to get scammed so they can gather fraud intelligence | Wednesday 14th October, 2026 |
| gulfnews.com | AI bots waste 17 years of scammers' time on 2.5 million fake conversations | Thursday 15th October, 2026 |
| ntd.com | AI Startup’s Bots Waste 17 Years of Scammers’ Time as Tech Company Expands Into US | NTD | Wednesday 21st October, 2026 |