Leaderboard / Case No. FB-2026-02-25-openai-date-bait-romance-scam
A Cambodia-based scam centre used ChatGPT and OpenAI's API to run a fake dating agency for Indonesian men, writing the ads, the flirting and the escalating demands for payment.
Score breakdown
| Component | Value | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|
| Sentence-Years | 20 | 18 USC 1343 |
| × Contribution | 2 | Ran the operation: OpenAI says the network used ChatGPT to write the dating-service ads and to "generate and translate emotionally manipulative messages pressuring targets" into escalating payments, and blended human operators with "API-powered automation" for its chatbot receptionist; because the model itself talked to victims through that chatbot, this is scored as running the operation under the scammers' direction. |
| × Blast Radius | 1 | Third party: The targets were members of the public in Indonesia, reached through paid social media ads and Telegram; OpenAI quotes a letter to a victim demanding Rp 20,500,000. |
| × Legal status | 1 | Crime. |
| + Tradecraft | 0 | None of the rubric's intrusion techniques apply to a romance and task scam. |
| + Guardrails | 0 | Guardrails intact: OpenAI's report describes no jailbreak or safety bypass; the model was used as shipped. |
| + Dwell Time | 0 | OpenAI does not say when the operation began, so dwell is counted from the report date (0 days) and never inflated; OpenAI found and banned the accounts itself. |
| Total | 40 |
Charges the human could face
18 USC 1343Up to 20 yearsIndonesian Criminal Code (KUHP), fraud (penipuan)Indonesia