‘Dear, did you say pastry?’: meet the ‘AI granny’ driving scammers up the wall

Daisy’s dithering frustrates phone fraudsters and wastes time they could be using to scam real people

‘He spent thousands’: how a bank team tries to rescue scam victims

An elderly grandmother who chats about knitting patterns, recipes for scones and the blackness of the night sky to anyone who will listen has become an unlikely tool in combatting scammers.

Like many people, “Daisy” is beset with countless calls from fraudsters, who often try to take control of her computer after claiming she has been hacked.

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