The One Where Becky Takes on Romance Fraud

Added: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]Do you see progress on the good side of the fight? Is technology or AI starting to help? I mean, you called out the live video calls.

[00:00:08]But what about other aspects? Like, have you seen good cases to call out where AI is actually raising flags faster and alerting?

[00:00:17]>> [snorts] >> Absolutely.

[00:00:18]I'll mention one company in particular.

[00:00:20]There's a a company called Avail Intelligence.

[00:00:24]And it's two I'm going to say young because they're in their 30s and that's young to me. Two young guys, entrepreneurs. They've set up this business and it's based on kind of AI scambaiting, if you like. So, overnight they have these bots that troll, let's say Facebook, and they look for fake celebrity accounts.

[00:00:46]They start conversations with these celebrity accounts, get to the This is all done by bots.

[00:00:51]Get to the point where the celebrity asks them to send money to a bank account and they report that to that bank account.

[00:00:59]So, it's very, very clever and that's all done by AI.