“The rise of AI agents like Operator shows the dual nature of technology — tools built for productivity can be weaponized by determined attackers with minimal effort. This research highlights how AI systems can be manipulated through simple prompt engineering to bypass ethical guardrails and execute complex attack chains that gather intelligence, create malicious code, and deliver convincing social engineering lures.”
These sort of scams are always going after the technologically illiterate and the elderly. They don’t need AI to make them more sophisticated, in fact making them more sophisticated might be counterproductive because then they’ll waste time stringing people along for longer, only for them to get suspicious later on once the scam becomes obvious, because at some point it will become obvious, it’s usually the point at which they try to get you to mail them cash.
So it’s better for them to just be as blatant as possible to weed out the people who will never send them any money but might get strung along for a little while.