Meet the deceptibots.

The article discusses chatbots, which are computer programs that search social network profiles for personal information that is then used to initiate conversations in order to gather financial details. Topics include the prevalence of criminal chatbots on the Internet, the first text-based artificial dialogue system, called the Eliza program, created by Joseph Weizenbaum in 1966, and corporations' replacement of human customer service agents with chatbots.