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I genuinely didn’t realize AI apps could check scams for you now and I feel extremely late

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I thought the ChatGPT “apps” thing was gonna be another gimmicky feature nobody actually uses, but apparently you can connect tools to it that do real stuff now? I found this out after my roommate almost got tricked by one of those fake “your bank account is locked” texts that looked horrifyingly l…

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  1. 2026-08-29 09:20 · r/OpenAI
    I genuinely didn’t realize AI apps could check scams for you now and I feel extremely late

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