{"id":230510,"date":"2026-06-12T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/ai-is-turbocharging-the-spamosphere-amping-up-prolific-text-message-scams\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T05:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:55:11","slug":"ai-is-turbocharging-the-spamosphere-amping-up-prolific-text-message-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/ai-is-turbocharging-the-spamosphere-amping-up-prolific-text-message-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"AI is Turbocharging the Spamosphere, Amping Up Prolific Text-Message Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/ai-is-turbocharging-the-spamosphere-amping-up-prolific-text-message-scams-6cb20edc\">AI is Turbocharging the Spamosphere, Amping Up Prolific Text-Message Scams<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/ai-is-turbocharging-the-spamosphere-amping-up-prolific-text-message-scams-6cb20edc\">https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/ai-is-turbocharging-the-spamosphere-amping-up-prolific-text-message-scams-6cb20edc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-12 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wsj.com\">www.wsj.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scammers have shifted tactics to impersonate phone companies via fake messages targeting package notifications and toll-road fines.<\/li>\n<li>These scams now employ AI to create convincingly real-looking websites.<\/li>\n<li>Google filed a lawsuit against a group of these scammers, labeling them as one of the most prolific bad actors.<\/li>\n<li>This is the first legal action against defendants using Google\u2019s Gemini AI model.<\/li>\n<li>The article highlights the rapid advancements in AI being used for more sophisticated fraudulent schemes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is Turbocharging the Spamosphere, Amping Up Prolific Text-Message Scams https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/ai-is-turbocharging-the-spamosphere-amping-up-prolific-text-message-scams-6cb20edc Publish Date: 2026-06-12 05:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-39056073\/social","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230512,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230510\/revisions\/230512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}