Hello and welcome back to another thrilling day in accounting, as ChatGPT can now talk to and get rid of scammers on your behalf.

Let’s get to it. Here’s what’s on the menu today:

📰 News: Give Telemarketers the Boot with Your Personal AI Phone Butler

🖥️ AI Tutorial of the Day: How to Avoid Tax Scams Using ChatGPT

📝 Daily ChatGPT Swipe File: My “Catch-a-Tax Scam” ChatGPT Prompt

🗞️ News: Give Telemarketers the Boot with Your Personal AI Phone Butler 📞🤖

Take a knee, accountants. It’s time to talk tech.

Remember the good ol’ days when the most taxing part of your job was managing spreadsheets? Nowadays, with telemarketers ringing off the hook and threatening your peace of mind (and client list), it's becoming a whole different ball game.

But breathe easy, the accounting world has a new hero: enter Roger Anderson from sunny California, who's been putting his AI-powered chatbots, like our buddy 'Whitey' Whitebeard, to good use. They're the front line, taking those nuisance calls and keeping the scam artists busy (paywall link to WSJ article) while you take care of business.

Whitebeard, with the vocal cords of a Vermont dairy farmer, has one simple job: confuse the heck out of telemarketers, burning their time instead of yours.

Armed with GPT-4 (a tool from OpenAI), Anderson has transformed an annoying distraction into a digital playground. Whitebeard keeps the callers engaged with some inane chatter, buying time for the AI to process the conversation and respond. And it’s not just about passing the time, it's about protecting you and your clients from potential identity theft.

Take a moment to digest that. Go on, we'll wait.

Now picture this: Whitebeard is more than just a chatbot. He’s your digital butler, gatekeeper, and a big old time-saver. He has your back, ready to step in and wrestle with the sharks.

Anderson's brainchild, Jolly Roger, is more than just a fun gimmick. It's a subscription service offering an array of digital personalities like 'Salty Sally' and 'Whiskey Jack', each with their own unique charm to keep the telemarketers entertained (and distracted).

And they say AI has no personality...

Look, we know that embracing AI might seem like a stretch. But guess what? The folks using Jolly Roger don't need a PhD in computer science to handle it. They're regular folks who'd rather focus on their work than handle unsolicited calls.

Consider this: accountants are prime targets for scam calls and phishing attempts. So while you're diving deep into those financial statements, Whitebeard could be your first line of defense, handling the heavy lifting of warding off fraudsters.

The era of scrambling to answer every call is over. It's time to let your AI butler handle the chit-chat.

Anderson saw the potential in AI, and his software is the proof. And with companies like OpenAI pushing the boundaries, we're only seeing the tip of the AI iceberg.

The big takeaway? Don't just weather the storm. Embrace the change. Learn the AI tools. And be the accountant that rides the tech wave, instead of being swept under it.

Are you ready to answer the call?

🖥️ AI Tutorial of the Day: How to Avoid Tax Scams Using ChatGPT

In today’s tutorial you will learn how to leverage ChatGPT to analyze and catch tax scammers using ChatGPT.

It will automatically check any social media post, text message or email against the official IRS Dirty Dozen tax scam database.

If it detects a scam it will tell you why and the reasoning behind it as well as give you the direct reference to the IRS warning notice. 🔥

All with the click of a button using my latest ChatGPT prompt. 🤓

For free.

Here’ the video on how I did it step-by-step (and how you can too):

⚡️ Daily ChatGPT Swipe File: My “Catch-a-Tax Scam” ChatGPT Prompt

Here is the direct ChatGPT link that you can literally copy/paste your own info to research, analyze and thwart tax scams using ChatGPT.

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