Macquarie University cyber security experts have invented a multi-lingual chatbot designed to keep scammers on long fake calls to waste their time and ultimately reduce the huge number of people who lose money to global criminals every day.

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    Named Apate, after the Greek goddess of deception, the system will 'scam the scammers," using convincing voice clones to conduct conversations with real scammers.

    I half expected them to just call it Kitbogabot.