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Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google

2026-06-12 · TechCrunch

A Chinese cybercrime ring called 'Outsider Enterprise' weaponized AI to scam hundreds of thousands of people, blasting out 2.5 million fraudulent texts in just two weeks. Google is now suing them, because apparently the only thing scaling faster than AI products is AI-powered fraud. Nothing says 'democratizing technology' like industrializing scams at unprecedented speed.

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