Apate deploys AI Agents posing as victims to extract information from scammers

Australian AI startup Apate deploys AI Agents that pose as potential victims to converse with scammers, extracting information such as bank account and cryptocurrency wallet addresses and providing it to banks and telecom operators. According to a report by Zhidongxi on October 20, 2026, Apate says its Agents have completed 2.5 million conversations with scammers, cumulatively consuming the equivalent of 17 years of the other party's time; the platform has about 350,000 AI bots and has collected more than 250,000 pieces of scammer information; clients include Commonwealth Bank of Australia and telecom operator TPG Telecom, the latter of which has transferred nearly 590,000 calls to Apate's Agents. A report by Shangguan News on October 21 added that these bots can answer scam calls, reply to scam text messages and emails, track phishing links and join social media groups, intercepting scammers before they reach real victims; the company says that in more than two years since its founding, it has cumulatively consumed 17 years of scammers' time across 2.5 million conversations and extracted more than 250,000 information files, and after completing an $8.15 million funding round in August this year it is entering the US market.

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1. Oct 20· 2 reports

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   Source:Zhidx