Scam & Fraud Defense
Checking suspicious messages and calls before you act.
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- Scam & Fraud Defense
Use "pause, think, and ask" on a suspicious text or email
OpenAI says its free workshops for older adults, run with Older Adults Technology Services (OATS) from AARP, teach people to run a suspicious message past ChatGPT and look for warning signs like urgency, secrecy, and odd links. The company says people ask ChatGPT to check suspicious messages, emails, and websites tens of millions of times a week.
- Scam & Fraud Defense
Ask an AI "Is this a scam?" before you send money
ABC7 reported that a San Jose widow in her 70s, after months of an online romance, asked ChatGPT about a demand for another $1 million to unfreeze a supposed crypto account. ChatGPT told her it was a scam and to go to the police, but by then she had already lost nearly $1 million.
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