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AI scam callers can be broken with a few simple commands

Grant St. Clair
Jul 03, 2026
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AI is coming for all our jobs, it seems, even those of phone scammers. What is the world coming to when we can’t even get swindled by good, honest (well, not really) humans anymore?

The advent of AI has massively improved the scalability of these kinds of scams, to the point where a human doesn’t even need to be involved in the p…

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