Chapter 1: What happens when you Google an airline's phone number?
Your flight got canceled. You're standing in the terminal stressed and you Google the airline's phone number. There it is right at the top of the screen. You call it and you just handed your credit card to some scammer. Here's what's happening. Google's AI overviews, those summaries at the top of the search results, are pulling in fake phone numbers planted by hackers. They look official.
They show up first. So you trust them. Someone answers pretending to be your airline, bank, or insurance company. They sound legit. Then they ask to verify your card number or your social security number.
Chapter 2: How are scammers using Google's AI overviews?
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Next up, a call from my weekend show, The Kim Commando Show. Enjoy. John in Syracuse, New York. You're next. Hi there, John. Hi, Kim. How are you doing? Wonderful. Wow.
Thank you. I'm actually talking to you on the phone. Wow.
Chapter 3: What steps can you take to avoid phone scams?
Yes. It's wonderful.
Don't try and steal her voice. Somebody already has. It's all right.
Chapter 4: Why should you verify contact numbers directly from company websites?
So what's happening?
Well, what happened is, uh, I wanted to check a person's identity, you know, that you really have any business like they claimed it does. So I went to this, uh, website called information.com. Well, this junk in there, they, okay, we're doing this criminal records, blah, blah, blah. So it takes about 10, five minutes. Then at the end it says, well, you gotta pay. So what do we free?
The advertising is free. Yeah.
Then they, then they want some money at the end. So who were you looking up and why?
Well, a friend of mine that I have from there, they're claiming they have all these businesses and stuff like that. I want to see if it's really true or not. But the claim was my bank declined the transaction, and when I went to the It was actually $29.95. So I think the bank declined it.
Okay, so wait, wait, wait. It was advertised on the website as $0.99, but when you click buy, they charge you $30?
Well, first they claim it was free, okay? And then when you go to the last to get the report... Is it $0.99? Do you have five minutes to get this for $0.99?
Yeah, that's a big scam, John. That's just a big scam.
Right. Good for your bank to block the charge.
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