OpenAI Disrupts Poipet Scam Network Using ChatGPT Across Multiple Fraud Schemes

The Hacker News 5 August 2026, 21:33 EEST AI

OpenAI said it disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation that used its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT to facilitate a wide range of investment, romance, gambling, and law enforcement impersonation schemes. To that end, it banned a coordinated network of ChatGPT accounts likely originating from Southeast Asia and operating from the city of Poipet, a region with extensive…

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