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Sunday, 1 February 2026

Romance scams: AI-enabled romance scam workflows

OpenAI 7 months ago 36 ● 3 sources

OpenAI banned accounts that used AI to support romance scam workflows, including outreach, translation, victim engagement, and investment-fraud lures. The action involved banning the accounts themselves. This reduces the availability of AI-assisted services for scam operations and signals stricter enforcement against AI-enabled fraud.

Operation “False Witness”: Fake recovery service impersonating authorities

OpenAI 7 months ago 9 ● 3 sources

OpenAI banned accounts that likely originated in Cambodia and used AI to impersonate recovery services, law firms, and authorities targeting fraud victims. The ban concerned accounts that “very likely” came from Cambodia. As a result, those impersonation operations were shut down by OpenAI’s enforcement actions.

Operation “Date Bait”: AI-enabled scam targeting loveseekers

OpenAI 7 months ago 21 ● 3 sources

OpenAI banned accounts that originated in Cambodia and were used for AI-enabled scam outreach to Indonesian loveseekers, including translation and engagement. The accounts were blocked after outreach using AI for those messages. This changes scam activity by cutting off the accounts’ ability to operate through OpenAI’s services for these campaigns.

Operation “No Bell”: Coordinated criticism of the US and allies

OpenAI 7 months ago 37 ● 3 sources

OpenAI banned accounts linked to an unreported operation dubbed “No Bell” that was likely Russia-origin and used AI to generate criticism of the US and its allies for audiences across Africa. The accounts were banned after the operation was previously unreported and identified as using AI for audience-targeted criticism. This removes access to the involved accounts and disrupts that AI-generated influence effort.

Operation “Trolling Stone”: Russia-linked influence activity

OpenAI 7 months ago 39 ● 3 sources

OpenAI banned accounts linked to an influence operation dubbed “Trolling Stone,” which generated comments about an alleged Russian cult leader’s arrest in Argentina using AI. The report says the accounts were linked to a previously unreported operation. As a result, those accounts were removed, and the incident was brought to light as an example of AI-assisted influence activity tied to Russia.

Operation “Fish Food”: Russia-origin content farm activity

OpenAI 7 months ago 17 ● 3 sources

OpenAI banned accounts linked to the Rybar network that appear to have originated in Russia and used AI to support multilingual influence activity across websites and social platforms. The article says the accounts were linked to the Rybar network. This results in those Rybar-linked accounts being removed from OpenAI services and their AI-enabled influence activity being disrupted.

“Cyber Special Operations”: China-linked influence planning

OpenAI 7 months ago 46 ● 2 sources

OpenAI banned an account linked to a person associated with Chinese law enforcement after detecting AI use tied to influence activity and online harassment operations. The account was banned by OpenAI (date not specified in the article). As a result, access to the account was cut off as OpenAI acted against the planned influence and harassment activity.

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