{"id":179528,"date":"2018-01-12T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/12\/scam-jujitsu-online-style\/"},"modified":"2018-01-12T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T01:31:00","slug":"scam-jujitsu-online-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/12\/scam-jujitsu-online-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Scam Jujitsu, Online Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/11\/10\/16632724\/scam-chatbot-ai-email-rescam-netsafe\">developed a chatbot that screws around with scammers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have some free time, you might want to avail yourself of this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Chatbots. They\u2019re usually a waste of your time, so why not have them waste someone else\u2019s instead? Better yet: why not have them waste an <i>email scammer\u2019s<\/i> time. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the premise behind Re:scam, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rescam.org\/\">email chatbot<\/a> 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. You can see a few sample dialogues in the video above, or check out a longer back-and-forth below. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;Works for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone has developed a chatbot that screws around with scammers. If you have some free time, you might want to avail yourself of this: Chatbots. They\u2019re usually a waste of your time, so why not have them waste someone else\u2019s instead? Better yet: why not have them waste an email scammer\u2019s time. That\u2019s the premise &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[618,395,435,367],"class_list":["post-179528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-computer","tag-crimes","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}