Overview
- On Friday, June 12, 2026, Google filed a civil complaint seeking to dismantle the Outsider Enterprise, which it says distributes turnkey phishing kits via Telegram that let criminals run mass fake-text campaigns.
- Google’s filing links the network to more than 9,000 fake websites, over 1 million fraudulent URLs and millions of scam messages, and says Android users flagged 55,000 spam texts in a two-week span.
- The company says it is coordinating with the FBI, which confirmed plans for law enforcement actions, and major carriers including AT&T, T‑Mobile and Verizon have pledged to block or label scam texts and assist takedowns.
- Google is also pressing Congress to pass seven bipartisan bills to create lasting legal tools against AI-enabled scams while deploying product defenses such as Android’s scam detection and messaging filters.
- Investigations and technical disruptions are under way but unresolved, and the case highlights how AI and easy-to-use phishing kits lower the bar for large-scale fraud that has already harmed hundreds of thousands of victims.