Meaning of scambot | Babel Free

Definitions

A bot that promotes a scam.

Examples

“‘It was more than an annoyingly persistent scambot,’ he said. ‘That was just a cover⟳ for a piece of code set⟳ up to send⟳ chunks of our code to some cleverly munged I.P. address.’”

“Just lads, they’d got hold⟳ of his phone, lads we were at school with. Saying he had an imaginary girlfriend, she was one of those Russian scambots, you know⟳, wants money, they get⟳ your mobile number⟳ from somewhere and try⟳ to get⟳ pin numbers or whatever.”

“Chatbots are typically following a variation of a table of rules, sometimes randomly accessed (such as in the case of some Tinder scambots), sometimes tied directly to a discrete set⟳ of answers like⟳ in an online help⟳ system.”

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