--- title: AI Overviews Rife With Scam Phone Numbers | daily.dev description: Google's AI Overviews are surfacing fraudulent phone numbers planted by scammers on low-profile websites. When users search for a company's contact info, the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-overviews-rife-with-scam-phone-numbers-irjq1tshh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI Overviews Rife With Scam Phone Numbers | daily.dev og:description: Google's AI Overviews are surfacing fraudulent phone numbers planted by scammers on low-profile websites. When users search for a company's contact info, the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-overviews-rife-with-scam-phone-numbers-irjq1tshh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/irJq1Tshh.png og:image:alt: AI Overviews Rife With Scam Phone Numbers og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI Overviews Rife With Scam Phone Numbers **[Security Boulevard](https://daily.dev/sources/securityboulevard)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Google's AI Overviews are surfacing fraudulent phone numbers planted by scammers on low-profile websites. When users search for a company's contact info, the AI scrapes and presents these fake numbers without verification, connecting callers to con artists who extract sensitive data and payment information. Experts note that LLMs trained on bad data cannot unlearn it, making this an ongoing challenge. Recommendations include avoiding AI Overviews for contact lookups, using Google Maps or the Knowledge Graph instead, and security teams monitoring brand identity while training users to treat AI-surfaced facts as unverified. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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