# OpenAI — Operation “Wrong Number”: AI-assisted task scam

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-06-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-wrong-number
- Record: https://forck.live/items/545-operation-wrong-number-ai-assisted-task-scam

OpenAI banned accounts likely originating in Cambodia that used AI to support scam workflows targeting people in the UK.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-wrong-number:

> OpenAI banned accounts that likely originated in Cambodia and used AI to support scam workflows targeting people in the UK.

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