A Delhi man used ChatGPT-5 to outsmart a scammer resulting in the scammer begging for forgiveness. The scammer’s geolocation and photograph of his face was captured by the Delhi based individual using a fake payment link generated using ChatGPT. This whole incident was shared by the man in a Reddit post which has gone viral, capturing many people’s attention.
How did the incident unfolded?
This whole quirky incident started when the man recieved a message on facebook from someone impersonating the man’s college senior an IAS officer. Moreover, the scammer claimed that a friend,who is a CRPF officer, was being transferred and was selling high-end appliances and furniture at heavily discounted prices.
However the man grew suspicious since his actual senior already had his direct phone number. Although, after confirming it was a fraud with the real senior, he decided to play along with the scammer to expose the scammer’s operation.
Then after some time the scammer contacted the man using a different mobile number with an army profile picture. The scammer sent a QR code to demand payment, however the Delhi man kept on stalling the scammer by acting of having a technical issue scanning it.
\However the Delhi man was using ChatGPT to build a simple but functional webpage designed to capture the user’s GPS location and capture a picture of the scammer using the device’s front camera. He hosted the tracker page and sent the link ot the scammer and told him that uploading the QR code there would speed the payment process.
Then the scammer in his greed and urgency clicked the link. Post which the webpage designed by ChatGPT captured the scammer’s exact GPS co-ordinates, IP address and a clear photo of his face.
What happened after scammer’s location was known?
The man then sent the scammer his own photo and location details. This caused the scammer to panic and immediately begin begging for forgiveness in a series of messages, promising to stop his fraudulent activities.
“Scammer tried running an Army transfer/cheap goods scam while impersonating a college senior, an IAS officer. Instead of paying, I used ChatGPT to quickly code a geolocation/front-camera capture link, tricked him into clicking it, and scared plus forced him to turn down the operation immediately by sending him his own photo and coordinates,” he wrote.
How did social media react?
One user wrote, “Mad respect. I am going to use this. Infact make this open source. Host it somewhere so that we can do it too.”
Another commented, “AI used for the right reasons. Good work!”
A third said, “I think there is more to this than simply asking ChatGPT to write code. Maybe someone with your IT background could handle it. The creators of ChatGPT likely implemented limits on its capabilities. Without these restrictions, it would be too easy for someone to trick a non-IT person into revealing sensitive information such as geolocation or access to the front camera.”
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