Lloyd Tripp

Artificial Intelligence Advocate

Head of Investment Banking Emirates Investment Bank?!?!

2023-02-17 illicit Lloyd Tripp

More than just improving language

ChatGPT can also enable scammers to create emails that seem more genuine and trustworthy. Again, it is not that difficult to spot that it is a scam, but improving the language used in a scam email is just one of the ways Large Language Models (LLMs) can assist scammers. The human-like responses and the ability to understand context means that bots powered by LLMs can carry on a conversation over several text or email exchanges which can build trust before the infected doc or link is sent.

A more in-depth look at how AI can be used in phishing attacks can be found in this ZDNET article Phishing attacks are getting scarily sophisticated. Here’s what to watch out for.

Take a look at this actual scam email and the response from ChatGPT: scam email