In the last 6 months I've had 3 or 4  inquiries from strangers on the line app and a couple on texts.  My mother has had a couple on her line. I was shocked she actually carried on a conversation with one of them.  A perfect victim , a lonely 85 yr old  new widow. 

On line it starts with, "do we know each other?  I found you on my line contacts list."

The 3 I actually chatted a bit with said they were living on the West Coast of USA.  All 3 Asian.  Two of them projected being wealthy through pictures of food, shopping or just said so. All 3 sent pictures, 2 had profile pictures of attractive Asians with what i call a korean pop star surgical look.  Small chin, nose, maybe  fixed eyes.  Quite attractive, if you like the current pop icon look.   

English was very good.  They never asked for anything. Probably long game.  

They seemed to lose interest if i requested a proof photo, like a picture with todays paper or my old Thai friendly standard, holding an upside down coke can.  The last one and I were conversing on a technical 4 step deck coating process I was having real World issues with.  Outdated bad initial product, box elder bugs landing during The 18 hour fly paper stage, temperatures etc.   this is when i figured it was an AI bot.  Just to robotic sounding.  When i accused it of being a AI bot the chat stopped. 

Has anyone else encountered this?

This is picture of the first 1.  I think  she said 37.  moved to USA with family a dozen years ago from Singapore.  Had a maid, pictures of fancy take out meal she had with her maid.  She admitted to having lots of suiters but worried they were just after her money.  2 of them talked about investing and retiring early.   I actually asked for  investment  advice  thinking that was the scam but the one didn't bite.   The others looked so similar I had to closely compare photos. 

I finally decided there are folks out there trying to teach their AI programs by conversing with real people.   Possibly developing reationships over time for some furure scam.   Or seeding a scan tool on your device.   Any ideas.    And yes I would do them. 

 

That identical picture is on linkedin.

These type of scams etc typically harvest images from social media.

 

 

I didn't do a picture search but figured they were all fake.  I just dont understand the scam. 

It's a setup for the infamous pig butchering scam. 

 

It would make sense that the AI is used to screen for potential victims and that at some point an actual human scammer steps in.

Just received this new one. 

Im addition i seem to be getting lots more phishing emails.  They seem to be getting more real.  

I get the same level of dumb bot conversations with human females of different nationalities...... 

I was recently in Australia visiting my Mum (92 year old living alone) and she received a scam call on her landline at least once a day. Some were very realistic (e.g, pretending to be from her energy or electricity provider - quoting the right address/account number - saying there had been a mistaken double charge to her bank account and seeking credit card details to refund the payment).

 

12 hours ago, Elkski said:

Just received this new one. 

Correct response is "f_uck right off".

This lady from "Singapore" started chatting with me completely out of the blue about a year ago. I am 99% certain she (he) is a scammer but we have been chatting about all sorts of topics and only occasionally does she mention how much she is making with some sort of gold trading account. Either she is just bragging (1%) or trying to get me involved in some gold trading scam (99%) but I always ignore those comments and change the subject. Her last message to me was "If you are interested, I can also teach you this investment in gold foreign exchange trading. I can also teach you to register for a free demo account and learn with me, which is good for you." I said no thanks and haven't heard from her in a couple of weeks. I can see how people can get sucked in because her very long term strategy is very convincing. She has even sent quite a few photos of herself and her daughter, none of which are found in any image reverse searches so appear original. Anyway, I play along and treat her like a high quality chatbot, and I remain polite but not interested in any schemes. Polite because there is that 1% chance she is a real person so there is no need for me to be offensive. I also BS about everything regarding me and my details so if she is gathering data about me then it is all useless. Here is one of her recent photos.

 

13 hours ago, Dexxter said:

This lady from "Singapore" started chatting with me completely out of the blue about a year ago. I am 99% certain she (he) is a scammer but we have been chatting about all sorts of topics and only occasionally does she mention how much she is making with some sort of gold trading account. Either she is just bragging (1%) or trying to get me involved in some gold trading scam (99%) but I always ignore those comments and change the subject. Her last message to me was "If you are interested, I can also teach you this investment in gold foreign exchange trading. I can also teach you to register for a free demo account and learn with me, which is good for you." I said no thanks and haven't heard from her in a couple of weeks. I can see how people can get sucked in because her very long term strategy is very convincing. She has even sent quite a few photos of herself and her daughter, none of which are found in any image reverse searches so appear original. Anyway, I play along and treat her like a high quality chatbot, and I remain polite but not interested in any schemes. Polite because there is that 1% chance she is a real person so there is no need for me to be offensive. I also BS about everything regarding me and my details so if she is gathering data about me then it is all useless. Here is one of her recent photos.

 

 

AI generated photo .

I'm still waiting for my money from the Nigerian prince...

Some guys have all the luck

X is awash with the same thing...ive taken a leaf out of the Elon Musk book of responses...for some reason it sorts the sh!t from the strawberry jam.🥷

Could just be a way of using real life study subjects for free to improve AI responses. If you have ever tried to beta release of Bing AI Chat you would see they are easy to spot because they are too logic oriented. By using living test subjects they can introduce feeling and emotional tempered responses.

Try Bing AI on sensitive but not offensive subjects (War, Human Rights, etc.) then ask the same of your supposed bots and compare the responses.

11 hours ago, mrwebb8825 said:

to improve AI responses.

the ones (all female) that have messaged me on X all fail the comprehension test miserably...failure to understand ive already answered the question(s) they ask...

''sorry to say you've failed the comprehension test and there is no point taking this conversation any further ...have a nice existence ''

I never hear from them again.
I mean lets face it if I said that to a real women they couldn't help themselves but answer back with a vitriolic serve wanting the last word🤣🤣👣⚧

So it is happening to others.   I agree they are trying to de roboticize the speech patterns.  Also logging any tidbits of information you may give. 

I asked one fir a sexy pic and that ended the conversation.  Now i wished i didnt delete all these conversations.   I think Elin is correct in being worried about AI.   I read they can emulate voices so you can have a bot with a family members voice call asking for money.