AI Chatbot Scams: How Fake Customer Support Bots Are Stealing Banking Details in 2026 Fake AI customer service chatbots are tricking people into handing over passwords, OTP, and banking details on convincing lookalike websites. Here's exactly how these scams work in 2026, and how to protect your accounts. Maria received a text that looked exactly like it came from her bank, complete with a link to "customer support." She clicked it, landed on a website that looked identical to her bank's real site, and started chatting with what appeared to be a helpful support agent. Within minutes, she'd shared information she never would have given a stranger on the phone. The agent wasn't a person, and the website wasn't her bank's. Both were built specifically to extract exactly the kind of information that empties a bank account. This pattern a fake chatbot embedded in a convincing lookalike website has become one of the fastest-growing categories o...