Users reported falling into scams following fake support numbers given by Google's AI Overviews that were scams.

Alex Rivlin was tackling a last-minute task for his European vacation. That’s how he got snagged in an artificial ...

Ever gotten a text from a number you didn’t recognize? These communications are not as innocent as they might seem.

The fraud Rivlin encountered stemmed from a scheme that has circulated for years: scammers publish fake customer service ...

Scammer phone number lookup: Another option to determine if a phone number calling you is likely scam activity is to search for it on Google. Several websites track scam numbers, and a quick ...

Trusting Google's AI to provide the right customer support numbers for certain queries can result in you contacting scammers ...

To protect yourself and others from this scam, the Better Business Bureau recommends the following: Verify support phone numbers. Use the contact details on the business's website.

In the past few years, copycat banks, phony gifts, and fake-out package deliveries were the scams du jour, but 2023 saw a new contender: the wrong number text scam.

Updated: Nov 3, 2022 / 07:10 PM HST HONOLULU (KHON2) — Hawaii residents reported losing more than $200,000 to various scams in 2021 and 2022 is closing in on that number as well.

WEST FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - The West Fargo Police Department has learned of a scam going around where a caller is using what looks like the department’s phone number.

Scam and spam calls are getting more common. And they’re hard not to answer because the number comes up as “unknown.” When there’s no caller ID number, you can’t be sure if it’s a spam ...

And is able to block more than 80% of fake phone number scams within Google Search. Google said it is now able to catch 20 times the number of scammy pages within Google Search than it was previously.