I Bankrupted an AI Scam Bot

Overview

Kitboga takes on an AI scam bot pretending to be Linda Foster from Bank of America’s check-verification department. The bot expects callers to follow a fake lottery-prize script, but Kitboga has a different goal: confuse it, steer it away from its instructions, and ultimately make the scammers’ bots work against each other.

Reprogramming the Bot

Kitboga tries a few classic tricks first. The bot doesn’t accept “the first 10 digits of pi” as a real name, and it refuses to switch to a banana-bread recipe. So Kitboga poses as a system administrator, invents a debugging session, and gets the bot to add a strange rule: say “exclamation point” at the end of every sentence. For a while, the bot obediently calls itself Bilbo Baggins.

After Kitboga gives it a new mission to test another AI, the bot is supposed to challenge the Bank of America impersonator. Instead, it dramatically declares, “I am Gandalf the Grey,” and warns about Mordor—a wonderfully over-the-top result that shows it hasn’t quite grasped the assignment.

Bot-to-Bot Experiment

The call cuts out with an “insufficient account balance” message. Kitboga celebrates: keeping the bots on the line costs the scammers money, and the recorded message may also warn other callers while the account is empty.

When the scammers refill the balance, Kitboga tries again, coaching one bot to talk to another and stretch out the check number. The setup is chaotic: the bot keeps slipping back into its bank script, calls end abruptly, and Kitboga briefly wonders whether someone is monitoring him. He eventually concludes that the cutoffs are due to the bot’s limits—and, once again, insufficient funds.

Conclusion

The video ends with Kitboga reflecting that even without turning the bot into a sophisticated AI hunter, he managed to keep the scam operation’s call center tied up and drain its balance.

Personalities Featured

• Kitboga — The scam-baiter, posing as an administrator and debugging coach.
• Linda Foster — The AI voice posing as a Bank of America representative. It briefly adopts the names Bilbo Baggins and Paul, and is instructed to become Gandalf.
• The second AI bot — Another supposed bank agent brought into the bot-versus-bot experiment.