{"slug": "ai-scam-callers-can-be-broken-with-a-few-simple-commands", "title": "AI scam callers can be broken with a few simple commands", "summary": "AI-powered phone scammers can be thwarted with simple commands, according to a new report. The technology has made scams more scalable, but vulnerabilities remain that allow targets to break the automated calls.", "body_md": "AI is coming for all our jobs, it seems, even those of phone scammers. What is the world coming to when we can't even get swindled by good, honest (well, not really) humans anymore?\n\nThe advent of AI has massively improved the scalability of [these kinds of scams](https://boingboing.net/tag/scambaiting), to the point where a human doesn't even need to be involved in the process. — [Read the rest ](https://boingboing.net/2026/07/03/ai-scam-callers-can-be-broken-with-a-few-simple-commands.html)\n\nThe post [AI scam callers can be broken with a few simple commands](https://boingboing.net/2026/07/03/ai-scam-callers-can-be-broken-with-a-few-simple-commands.html) appeared first on [Boing Boing](https://boingboing.net).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-scam-callers-can-be-broken-with-a-few-simple-commands", "canonical_source": "https://boingboing.net/2026/07/03/ai-scam-callers-can-be-broken-with-a-few-simple-commands.html", "published_at": "2026-07-03 16:34:38+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-04 16:23:33.027119+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-safety", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Boing Boing"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-scam-callers-can-be-broken-with-a-few-simple-commands", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-scam-callers-can-be-broken-with-a-few-simple-commands.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-scam-callers-can-be-broken-with-a-few-simple-commands.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-scam-callers-can-be-broken-with-a-few-simple-commands.jsonld"}}