# OpenAI — Scam operations: Online fraud networks

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-10-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-scam-operations
- Record: https://forck.live/items/443-scam-operations-online-fraud-networks

OpenAI banned accounts linked to online fraud networks that used AI for scam scripts, impersonation, translation, and victim engagement.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-scam-operations:

> OpenAI banned accounts tied to online fraud networks using AI to support scam scripts, impersonation, translation, and victim engagement.

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