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Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams
Google alleged in a civil lawsuit that the China-based network Outsider Enterprise used Gemini and other AI tools to help create phishing websites for large-scale text-message scams impersonating companies and government services. Google said the network coordinated through Telegram, generated thousands of fake sites and fraudulent URLs, sent 2.5 million Android messages during a two-week period in May 2026, and financially scammed hundreds of thousands of people.
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- incident-report
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2026-05-01T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2026-06-12T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
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