Apate.ai deployed autonomous agents to get scammed, harvesting fraud intelligence in real time. The move shows how companies are repurposing conversational bots for adversarial data collection.

The startup programmed its agents to pose as victims of phishing lures, baiting scammers into revealing tactics and payloads. Most AI agents today streamline product releases or automate internal workflows. Apate.ai f…

Apate.ai's agents interact with fraudsters across email, chat and phone channels. They collect malicious URLs, social‑engineering scripts and payment‑fraud patterns. The data feeds a threat‑intel pipeline that updates…

Traditional fraud teams rely on post‑mortem analysis of breach reports. Apate.ai injects live interaction into the loop, shortening the feedback cycle. The company reports higher detection rates, but it does not discl…