Security Firm Creates Chatbot To Respond To Scam Emails On Your Behalf (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday November 10, 2017 @03:20AM from the right-back-at-ya dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Chatbots. They're usually a waste of your time, so why not have them waste someone else's instead? Better yet: why not have them waste an email scammer's time. That's the premise behind Re:scam , an email chatbot operated by New Zealand cybersecurity firm Netsafe. Next time you get a dodgy email in your inbox, says Netsafe, forward it on to me@rescam.org, and a proxy email address will start replying to the scammer for you, doing its very utmost to waste their time.

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An interesting tactic by Baron_Yam · 2017-11-10 03:24 · Score: 5, Insightful

Anything that increases the cost of spam scams relative to the returns is worth investigating to see if it's practical, because ultimately you have to attack the economics to kill the beast.
I'd actually like to see this run on my local system, though.