How Google Supports Dangerous Phishing Email Attacks
Google Gmail has become one of the largest sources of dangerous
phishing attacks: Emails claiming fake charges, relating to PayPal,
Norton, Bitcoin, and many other products and services. They are
flooding non-Gmail email services and coming directly from Google
email servers.
The whole point of these is to get the recipient to call a provided
phone number to have the "charge" removed. Of course for these phishes
there was no actual charge -- but the "customer service" folks will
ask for financial information and/or try convince busy, nontechie
users to download software that gives the phishers control of their
systems for even more pervasive attacks.
GOOGLE COULD EASILY STOP THESE, BUT THEY REFUSE TO DO SO!
These phishes have characteristics that Google could easily use to
identify them and block them from being sent, especially to non-Gmail
destinations. But Google refuses to act, putting vast numbers of email
recipients at risk every day.
When all they seem to care about anymore is their
misinformation-spewing generative AI, I suppose it's not surprising
that Google seems to be just letting Gmail turn into a dangerous
nightmare for the rest of the Net.
Google's old motto, "Don't Be Evil", is just a memory.
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