# The Chatbot Beat the Con Artist: AI Doubled the Scam Success Rate in a New Study

Roughly 18 percent of targets were persuaded to click by human con artists. Aim a chatbot at the same people and the figure climbs to nearly one in two. That is the headline number from new research out of Northeastern and a handful of institutions abroad, and it arrives in the one arena where nobod

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| Published | 10 August 2026 |

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