{"id":14507,"date":"2017-11-10T02:44:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T01:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/10\/do-you-do-a-bingo-night-the-new-zealand-chatbots-designed-to-scam-the-scammers\/"},"modified":"2017-11-10T02:44:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T01:44:17","slug":"do-you-do-a-bingo-night-the-new-zealand-chatbots-designed-to-scam-the-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=14507","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Do you do a bingo night?&#039;: the New Zealand chatbots designed to scam the scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet watchdog uses artificial intelligence bot to engage foreign scammers in long-winded email conversationsThousands of online scammers around the globe are being fooled by artificial intelligence bots posing as New Zealanders and created by the country\u2019s internet watchdog to protect it from \u201cphishing\u201d scams. Chatbots that use distinct New Zealand slang such as \u201caye\u201d have been deployed by Netsafe in a bid to engage scammers in protracted email exchanges that waste their time, gather intelligence and lure them away from actual victims. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/nov\/10\/new-zealand-chatbots-artificial-intelligence-scam-conversations\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Do you do a bingo night?&#039;: the New Zealand chatbots designed to scam the scammers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet watchdog uses artificial intelligence bot to engage foreign scammers in long-winded email conversationsThousands of online scammers around the globe are being fooled by artificial intelligence bots posing as New Zealanders and created by the country\u2019s internet watchdog to protect it from \u201cphishing\u201d scams. Chatbots that use distinct New Zealand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}