Consumer privacy expert Dr. Katherine Albrecht has uncovered a phishing scheme that puts all 1.8 billion Gmail accounts and their owners at risk.
"Hackers try to get you to click on the link and enter your credentials in the page that looks like the actual Bank of America or Gmail login page, but in reality, it's a page that they have carefully set up to mimic that," she details.
According to the Daily Mail, the phishing scam mimics Google Drive notifications and tricks Google users into clicking malicious links.
The emails are incredibly well designed to the point that even experts are fooled. Logging into one's account gives scammers access to it. They can then lock the user out and claim all their money.
"The problem now is AI has infinite attention, and it will read everybody's e-mail with equal interest, whether you're a senator or an accountant or a housewife or a dentist," Dr. Albrecht asserts. "So, all of us are having dossiers created on us by artificial intelligence, and that scares the daylights out of me."
This story was first broken by a crypto tech guy, but when it was brought to Google's attention, she says they buried it and threatened any news organization that reported on it with a loss of advertising on Google's many platforms – where most Americans get their news and alerts.
"Google makes billions by harvesting personal information, so when a phishing scam hijacks its own systems to do the same thing, they're in no rush to stop it," Dr. Albrecht explains. "It's corporate complicity by omission."
She says this is not just about one scam; it is about who controls the flow of information – and what happens when that power is used to protect profit instead of people.
