Anthropic and other researchers detail how thousands of people were catfished by dating scam apps using LLM-generated replies from Claude and other models
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LLMs are now standard tooling for low-end fraud—thousands of victims via scripted romance scams is the new baseline, not an edge case. If you run any consumer or messaging surface, assume adversaries have infinite, personalized copy and invest in behavioral and network-level fraud signals, not just content filters.
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