How I didn’t get scammed by AI

I got a SMS message from a friend I loosely know. We’re FB friends and we’ve met IRL twice. They are also a *serious* player in the startup space — and I have a startup looking for financing.

Here’s how the conversation went.

This is where I think they are probing me to find out if I’ve got any good start-up idea!! So now I start to get pretty damn excited.

Around here I started to get suspicious. A lot of repeating EXACTLY what I said… So I figure I’ll a personal question.

Then I messaged them on LinkedIn.

So the lesson is. SMS is incredibly insecure. Stop using it for communicating with friends and family, and don’t believe anything that comes in via SMS.