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Tech founder charged with fraud for 'AI' that was secretly overseas contract workers

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Albert Sangier indicted for defrauding investors with misleading statements about his Nate financial technology platform.

Sangier raised more than $40 million from investors for the app.

Nate claimed it could offer shoppers a universal checkout app thanks to artificial intelligence.

However, the so-called AI-powered transactions were actually completed by human contractors in the Philippines and Romania or by bots.

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