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OpenAI Disrupts Poipet Scam Network Using ChatGPT Across Multiple Fraud Schemes

lowthehackernewsPublished 2026-08-05

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

MITRE ATT&CK techniques

Original source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/openai-disrupts-poipet-scam-network.html