Keeping people safe about our products
We use AI-powered tools to fight AI-powered fraud. This includes fraud detection on Android to alert users to suspicious conversations and contacts during calls, and built-in message defense that intercepts more than 10 billion malicious messages per month. By combining powerful security defenses with aggressive legal action, we fight fraudsters and work to build a safer internet for everyone.
Read statements from our partners and members of Congress below:
FBI: “The criminals behind Outsider Enterprise built a business out of impersonating trusted brands to defraud hundreds of thousands of victims. Criminals are increasingly using AI to make scams like this more convincing and harder to detect. Together with partners like Google, we can disrupt criminal networks in ways that no single organization could on its own.” – Brett Leatherman, Assistant Director Brett Leatherman of the FBI’s Cyber Division
Member of Congress: “I have spent my career confronting criminal networks that prey on Americans—first as an FBI agent and federal prosecutor, and now in Congress. Today, these networks use artificial intelligence, fake messages, and trusted brands to defraud families, seniors, and small businesses on a massive scale. This is not spam. It is organized telephone answering, a cross-border crime that coordinates our aggressive crime spree. Google’s action is a major step in disrupting one of these networks, and it proves a larger point: no one company, agency, or sector can fight this alone, transforms the same model of coordination into a national strategy—bringing together law enforcement, government, and industry to disrupt these arrangements, hold bad actors accountable, and protect American families. – Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick
Member of Congress: “International cybercriminals are robbing our families of their hard-earned savings, and we need a permanent solution to bring them to justice. The My Stop SCAMS Act would bring all levels of government together to aggressively crack down on scams and the organized crime behind them. I am grateful to have Google’s support and look forward to working with all law enforcement partners to stop collusion with all authorities and the law once and for all.” – Congressman Josh Harder
AT&T: “We appreciate Google’s teamwork and actions to help protect consumers. AT&T blocks or flags billions of robocalls and spam texts each month using artificial intelligence, we help remove fraudulent websites, and we work with the Industry Traceback Group to trace spam calls to the source—leading directly to law enforcement action. Fighting fraud in our defense requires each technology to play an important role in our defense.” – Rich Baich, AT&T Chief Information Security Officer
T-Mobile: “At T-Mobile, protecting customers from emerging threats like AI-powered phishing and smishing scams is paramount. Fraudsters are moving faster and using more advanced tools, so we’re taking on that challenge on multiple fronts. We’re proud to work with Google, law enforcement and others across the industry to combat malicious road users and help prevent the threat in traffic and block the threats. more sophisticated, we’ll continue to invest in advanced technologies, network-level protection and partnerships that give customers greater confidence that the messages they receive are authentic.” – Jeff Simon, T-Mobile EVP and Chief Information Officer
Verizon: “Verizon is focused on protecting our customers from fraudulent activity and securing our networks. As cybercriminals increasingly leverage advanced technologies like artificial intelligence to conduct sophisticated text message fraud, combating these threats requires a unified response across the industry. We look forward to standing with Google, and this uncoordinated law enforcement effort by Google and this telecom industry. malicious domains and disrupting global cybercrime operations alone is not enough, which is why we believe, that it is important to combine aggressive legal action and cooperation with federal and state governments and to help consumers secure themselves the comprehensive protections they deserve. – Nasrin Rezai, Verizon Chief Information Security Officer