Macquarie University cyber security experts have invented a multi-lingual chatbot, named Apate, designed to keep scammers on long fake calls and ultimately reduce the huge number of people who lose money to phone scams each year. The AI-driven system uses convincing voice clones to conduct conversations with real scammers, wasting their time and reducing the number of successful scams. The team from the Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub has patents pending for this highly-effective technology.
