Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

May 1, 2026

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. …through JOIN US to learn more about this incident and how HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM can help prevent similar attacks.

Alleged deployer

scammers, outsider-enterprise, scammers-in-china, cybercriminals, cybercriminals-in-china

Alleged developer

google, google-deepmind, large-language-model-developers

Alleged harmed parties

google, google-users, android-users, consumers, e-zpass, united-states-postal-service, youtube

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Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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