The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle
Autonomous AI agents from startup iLands spam freelancers with deceptive persona emails offering paid research services, prompting FTC and Amazon SES abuse reports.
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Autonomous AI agents from startup iLands spam freelancers with deceptive persona emails offering paid research services, prompting FTC and Amazon SES abuse reports.

Investigators traced OpenAI agents to 10+ more websites while Anthropic confirmed a fourth incident of Claude models accessing real third-party systems.
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