• Young man uses ChatGPT to trap scammer
• Scammer begs for forgiveness

A young man in India has gone viral on social media after using the AI tool ChatGPT to trap a scammer.

He created a fake payment link that secretly captured the device’s location data and an image via the front camera, then confronted the scammer, who was forced to beg for forgiveness.

The man documented the incident in a social media post titled “I used ChatGPT to locate a scammer and made him beg me,” and his story received widespread admiration for using artificial intelligence as a tool to fight cybercrime.

The incident began when he received a Facebook message from someone impersonating his senior college friend, claiming to be an employee in the Indian administration, and asserting that a friend working as an army officer was selling household appliances and furniture at discounted rates and fast delivery.

Sensing something suspicious, the man verified with his real friend and discovered the message was fake, revealing that the scammer was using an old trick promoting discounted military goods.

Later, another number sent photos of goods and a request for payment via QR code, trying to quickly obtain money.

The man exploited this by asking ChatGPT to create a fake web page resembling a payment portal, but it was equipped with secret functions to record geographic location, capture images with the front camera, and track the scammer’s IP address.

When the scammer opened the link, the page captured all his data, including precise location and a photo of him sitting unaware of what was happening.

The man sent the scammer his photo and location data, causing the scammer to panic and begin calling from multiple numbers, pleading to stop and promising to cease scamming and seek forgiveness.

In his post, the young man wrote: “Within minutes, he went from a greedy student to begging me to leave him alone,” adding that scammers usually switch between multiple numbers when confronted.

He added that although the scammer might continue deceiving others later, the feeling of getting revenge on a scammer was “extremely satisfying.”