{"id":956124,"date":"2025-08-19T12:09:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T06:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956124"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:09:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T06:39:44","slug":"how-scammers-are-using-google-ai-overviews-to-fool-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/19\/how-scammers-are-using-google-ai-overviews-to-fool-you\/","title":{"rendered":"How scammers are using \u2018Google AI Overviews\u2019 to fool you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Searching online for help with a booking or a service is supposed to be convenient, but for some Google users, it has turned into a costly trap. Google\u2019s AI Overviews feature, introduced to provide users with quicker answers at the top of search results, has now been linked to promoting fraudulent customer support numbers, which is leading unsuspecting users into scams.<\/p>\n<p>How Scammers Exploiting Search Results<br \/>\nRecently, a Facebook user, Alex Rivlin, shared that he had searched for a Royal Caribbean shuttle booking contact on Google. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searching online for help with a booking or a service is supposed to be convenient, but for some Google users, it has turned into a costly trap. Google\u2019s AI Overviews feature, introduced to provide users with quicker answers at the top of search results, has now been linked to promoting fraudulent customer support numbers, which is leading unsuspecting users into scams. How Scammers Exploiting Search Results Recently, a Facebook user, Alex Rivlin, shared that he had searched for a Royal Caribbean shuttle booking contact on Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}