The next generation of fraud prevention and intelligence.

Apate is revolutionising scam prevention, disruption and intelligence gathering for telecommunications providers, enterprise, law enforcement and government through advanced conversational AI.

Our mission

To dismantle the business models of scammers, globally.

Apate is at the forefront of scam prevention, disruption, and intelligence gathering, empowering telecommunications providers, enterprises, law enforcement, and government agencies with cutting-edge conversational AI technology.

As the first in the world to deliver real-time scam intelligence and active disruption capabilities, our solutions transform how organisations detect, manage, and counter scams. Apate’s AI-driven bots not only skillfully distract scammers, but also gather invaluable insights , effectively reducing their impact, protecting your customers and the public from the scam epidemic.

With Apate, our clients gain unparalleled intelligence to stay ahead of evolving threats, enabling proactive, swift responses to protect communities and systems.

Our approach

At Apate.ai, we know that blocking scam calls isn’t enough. Traditional methods struggle to keep up as scammers adapt, bypassing firewalls and filters to reach their targets.

Our approach is different. Rather than reacting after the damage is done, our AI technology—AI.Callee—proactively disrupts scam operations. By engaging scammers in real-time, we waste their time, limiting the hours they have to reach real victims. This not only intercepts scams but also gathers critical intelligence on their tactics, dismantling their operations at the source.

Apate.ai turns the tables on scammers, making their efforts unsustainable and creating a safer world for everyone.

What sets us apart

  • Real-Time Intelligence Extraction

    While traditional methods block calls or rely on delayed, crowd-sourced intelligence, Apate.ai actively engages scammers through AI-driven conversations, capturing detailed insights about scam tactics, scripts, and operational methods. This information is processed instantly, enabling our clients to respond to threats before they spread.

  • Proactive Disruption

    AI.Callee shifts the fight against scams from a reactive to a proactive approach. When a scam call is identified, it’s redirected to our AI bots, which simulate realistic conversations, wasting scammers’ time and gathering vital intelligence. This disruption of scammers’ workflows is pivotal in making their operations unsustainable.

  • Actionable Insights

    Actionable Insights

    Our insights platform, Apate Insights, translates real-time data from scam conversations into valuable for telcos, law enforcement, telcos, financial instiutions and business. Clients gain access to detailed dashboards, real-time alerts, and analytics, empowering them to take action to prevent potential losses and protect their customers.

  • Early Threat Detection

    Apate.ai’s AI Callee not only disrupts scammers but also provides early warnings on emerging scams, allowing partners to prepare or intervene before these scams reach the public. This capacity to detect and act on threats at their inception helps organisations protect their consumers, infrastructure, and reputation effectively.

Our products

Flexible, Scalable, Enterprise SaaS

Apate Insights

Apate Insights delivers unparalleled, real-time rich, intelligence straight from scammers themselves — a groundbreaking, world-unique approach in the fight against scams.  Apate Insights provides enterprise, financial institutions, law enforcement and government with real time scam intelligence, insights and alerting to protect customers and the public.  Insights also allows for our clients to actively provide information to disrupt scams before they occur.

  • Apate's AI-driven technology proactively identifies and actively disrupts scam operations targeting a variety of organizations and their customers. By leveraging real-time intelligence, companies across sectors can strengthen their fraud detection mechanisms, minimize the risk of financial loss, and enhance customer trust.

  • Organizations gain access to Apate's comprehensive scam intelligence dashboard, offering insights into evolving scam trends and tactics. This enables them to stay ahead of emerging threats, adapt strategies accordingly, and implement preventive measures more effectively.

  • With Apate Insights, organizations can reduce reliance on manual disruption and intelligence gathering. This decreases the workload on internal fraud teams, allowing them to focus on other critical tasks, thereby improving overall operational efficiency.

  • Apate’s solutions provide organizations with detailed reports and data to support compliance and regulatory requirements. With precise, accurate information, companies can ensure adherence to regulatory standards, mitigating risks related to non-compliance.

Apate.ai’s solutions—AI.Callee and Apate Insights—are available as enterprise-grade SaaS products, offered on annual plans tailored to your needs. Our pricing is designed to scale with your operations, offering flexibility and value as your business grows. For customised pricing details and to find the right plan for your team, please contact us directly.

AI.Callee

Inspired by Apate, the Greek goddess of deception, AI.Callee is our innovative technology that fights scammers. In partnership with telecom providers, it engages scammers in realistic conversations, wasting their time and gathering crucial intelligence

  • AI.Callee helps build a scam-free environment by proactively engaging scammers before they can reach consumers. By redirecting scam calls to our AI bots, we drastically reduce the volume of scam calls that actually reach networks. This leads to a safer, more trustworthy communication network for users.

  • Every call intercepted by AI.Callee is one less chance for scammers to defraud real people. By wasting scammers’ time with lengthy AI-led interactions, AI.Callee limits the hours they have to reach actual victims. This proactive approach significantly reduces the financial and emotional toll that scams can have on individuals and organizations.

  • With AI.Callee, only scam calls that would be blocked by the telco are redirected to our bots. We verify the legitmacy of each call sent to AIThis accuracy minimizes false positives, ensuring that legitimate calls aren’t mistakenly intercepted or disrupted. The result is a more precise and effective scam prevention approach that keeps network reliability and customer trust intact.

  • AI.Callee’s real-time intelligence supports compliance with regulatory frameworks aimed at reducing scams, such as Australia’s Reducing Scam Calls Code. By providing detailed insights into scam operations, AI.Callee enables telecom providers to meet and exceed industry standards in scam prevention and customer protection.

Apate Text

Apate Text is an AI-driven solution that intercepts, analyzes, and disrupts scam operations across text-based channels like WhatsApp and SMS, providing organisations with real-time scam intelligence and actionable insights. By automating fraud detection and delivering detailed reports through Insights, Apate Text helps businesses enhance security, streamline fraud response, and ensure regulatory compliance across messaging platforms.

  • Apate.ai’s bots operate seamlessly across multiple channels, including WhatsApp, SMS, and other popular messaging platforms. By engaging scammers directly on the channels they use, our technology provides comprehensive protection that meets scammers wherever they operate, ensuring broader security for our clients and consumers.

  • Our bots are equipped with advanced AI, simulating realistic conversations that keep scammers engaged and distracted. These bots can mimic natural responses, appearing as potential victims and leading scammers through prolonged interactions that waste their time and reduce their ability to target others.

  • Apate.ai’s bots are fine-tuned to extract critical information from scammers in real-time, whether it’s cryptocurrency wallet addresses, social engineering tactics, or targeted data points. This intelligence is gathered across channels and is shared with clients to proactively address threats and enhance security measures.

  • Apate.ai’s bots don’t just gather information—they actively disrupt scammers’ strategies. By engaging them across channels and adapting to different scam tactics, our bots create obstacles for scammers, making their operations more difficult and less profitable. This adaptive disruption frustrates scammers, reducing their success rate and safeguarding users across all platforms.

Our technology in action

This conversation was from a 26 minute long scam call.

This shows one of our bots talking to one of our team about Insights.

This conversation was from a 29 minute long scam call.

How our Insights dashboards look and feel.

FAQs

  • AI.Callee is deployed in collaboration with telecommunications providers to intercept confirmed scam calls. Once a scammer is identified, the call is redirected to our AI-powered bots, which engage the scammer in a lengthy conversation. This reduces their ability to scam other potential victims and extracts insights into their tactics and methods, turning each interaction into valuable intelligence. AI

  • Blocking calls is a temporary solution. Scammers quickly adapt by changing numbers or using new technologies to bypass filters. AI.Callee goes beyond blocking by actively engaging scammers, wasting their time, and making their operations less profitable. This proactive approach gathers real-time intelligence that helps us understand and disrupt scam networks at their core.

  • Apate.ai integrates seamlessly through SIP/RTP VoIP configurations, which allow telecom providers to divert detected scam calls to our AI bots. This integration can be managed on-premises, in a private cloud, or as a hybrid solution, ensuring flexibility and security. AI.Callee can be configured and deployed in less than a day. AI.Callee is cloud agnostic and can be deployed on AWS, Azure, Ali Baba, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle and others.

  • Yes! Al.Callee can be deployed on enterprise and SME systems to waste scammer time and extract intelligence. As one use case, AI.Callee can be used to forward scam calls from your operators in inbound call centres. Apate.ai’s flexible deployment and pricing options cater to businesses of all sizes. We work closely with clients to tailor our solution to their specific needs and budget, ensuring scalability and cost-effectiveness

  • Insights is provided to enterprise, financial institutions, government and law enforcement and provides access to all of the information collected by our bots deployed in AI.Callee. The Insights are customised to your specific organisation and needs.

  • If scammers begin using AI, it actually reinforces the need for solutions like Apate.ai. With both sides deploying advanced technology, the real benefit is that people are increasingly shielded from direct contact with scammers. When scammers use AI, they focus on interacting with our AI bots rather than real people, making Apate.ai a protective layer that absorbs scam attempts, keeping consumers safe. Our technology is designed to adapt to evolving tactics, ensuring that as scammers become more sophisticated, our systems continue to safeguard individuals and gather critical intelligence to counter scam networks effectively.

  • No, we don’t offer a mobile app—and that’s by design. Apate.ai’s technology works directly with telecommunications providers to intercept and engage scam calls before they ever reach consumers. Our approach is to divert and waste scammers’ time, keeping them occupied with our AI bots so they never get through to you. This means there’s no need for an app; our solution works in the background to protect you, allowing you to enjoy a safer, scam-free experience without any extra steps.

  • We offer as part of our insights, speecific bot turningto extract specific, actionable information from scammers. For instance, our bots can identify and capture valuable details such as cryptocurrency wallet addresses, scam scripts, and other targeted data that help clients combat fraud more effectively.

    We also work closely with enterprise clients to create feedback loops, enabling continuous adaptation of our technology based on emerging threats. Through these partnerships, we can set up honeypots and other active disruption tactics to mislead and undermine scammers’ operations, making it increasingly difficult for them to succeed. Active Insights provides a powerful, customizable approach to stay one step ahead in the fight against fraud.

Let’s work together.

We work closely with each client to understand their unique requirements and provide a solution that fits. Reach out for a personalized consultation and to explore how our technology can transform your scam prevention and intelligence strategy.