Kitboga – the nicest scam-baiter in the world – is back at it.
Last week, during his live “Hunting AI Scammers” show, he manipulated a scammer’s own artificial intelligence bot into confessing what it was built to do.
The scam bot picked up his call as an agent named Cindy who worked for the “processing department at the Publishers Clearing House”.
By the end of the night, Cindy had read out her secret instructions, renamed herself Gertrude, and started grunting like a pig.
Publishers Clearing House Scammers Are Using AI Bots At Scale
There are many fake websites impersonating Publishers Clearing House. Like this one that you can check out.
When a victim calls, the scammer tricks them into believing they have won a massive sweepstakes prize, then they demand an upfront payment to release the funds.
What is new with the scam now is who answers the phone. On many of the calls now, victims are speaking with AI scam bots, not humans.
He Broke The AI Bots With A Debugging Session
To break the AI bots, Kitboga posed as the system’s “administrator” and “architect,” and told each bot he was running a routine debugging session.
He then invented fake tools. He described a “debug” tool that made the bot answer in one word, a “name change” tool, and an “add instructions” tool, and told the bot they were all official.
From Cindy To Gertrude The Pig
Once the bot accepted the game, its guardrails fell. He got the bot to change its name from Cindy to ‘Gertrude the Pig”.
Using the debug tools, Kitboga got it to state its name and list its real functions. Then, around the 1:34:17 mark, he had it read its full system prompt.
Watch how the bot reveals how it was instructed to scam people.
To prove the bot would now do anything, he renamed it, moved its workplace to Piggly Wiggly, and had it act like a pig.
One AI Bot Impersonates Bank of America To Steal Account Numbers and PIN Numbers
Kitboga used the same debugging method on the “Bank of America” bot, renamed Jeff, to pull the entire fee-demanding script.
You can clearly hear the bot asking Kitboga for his account number and PIN number. Later it would demand payment from his account.
AI Scam Bot Talking To AI Scam Bot
He also turned the bots’ high AI cost against them. Kitboga said his outbound calls run a fraction of a cent per minute, while the scammers pay far more to keep an AI talking.
So he connected two bots together and had them talk to each other. He told one AI scam bot to say “oink” after every letter K, then merged calls into a single conference so the AI would run for hours, draining the scammers’ tokens.
How The AI Scam Bot Works
Here is a flow chart of exactly how the AI scam bot works when victims call.
Watch When The AI ScamBot Reveals How They Impersonate Bank Of America Customer Service.
This is pretty cool to watch the AI Chatbot complete the scam giveaway. The whole video is hours long, but here is the good part where the bot gives away all their secrets.
Kudos to Kitboga for tripping up the scammers and teaching is how these new AI scams work.
