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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Dani Oh

'Everyone Is a Robot There', Criminals Use ChatGPT, Gemini and Starlink to Run Pig Butchering Scams in Just Days

FBI and Royal Thai Police DSI agents surveilling suspected scam centers on the Myanmar (Burma) border (Credit: Federal Bureau of Investigation/wikimedia commons)

Criminal groups based in compounds along Myanmar's border with Thailand are using ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and Starlink satellite internet to push victims into transferring cryptocurrency in as little as four days, according to reporting from the Associated Press.

Former workers say artificial intelligence now handles or speeds up much of the process, generating messages, translating conversations and allowing operators to juggle multiple targets at once.

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