... Roger's Profanisaurus.

Time to put in a few reps before bedtime.

Only applicant that didn't have a problem with working the graveyard shift.

I hope this counts against Amazon's H1-B allotment.

All he has to do is to adopt the BOFH attitude. Nobody would dare get on his bad side by asking inane questions.

War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.

Wait! What? Never mind the free stuff. I don't think this sale pencils out.

"Gait recognition"

I have a rock in my shoe.

Less accessible, if being a YouTube TV subscriber is a prerequisite (US only). Gotta pump up those subscription numbers, I guess.

Well, your examples are phishing via email. There's a lot of that going on. Just look for "To: undisclosed-recipients:" in your mail headers.

SMS as well, I imagine. And "impersonating organizations like the IRS or the U.S. Postal Service" is pretty easy, given the weak security of our wireless infrastructure. And there are legitimate "mass SMS broadcasters", so that by itself isn't new either.

what bothers me is that Google is seeking grounds to go after these people extra-judicially. I just don't trust them not to abuse such powers.

Well, Google cares. Or should care, since they are (supposedly) selling them a secure environment. But probably the easiest solution is a bit of public service announcement user education:

Do not click on in-message links. Go to the official home page and log in from there.

Movie theater seats would be a better analogy. We can seat the entire town. But we will only show what our parent company has produced.

Good point. I left that out of my list.

We have also elected officials to be empowered with the responsibility for enforcing laws. Nobody elected Google. And 'we' have put the collective rope and tree approach to law enforcement behind us.

I hope so. The Chinese group doesn't appear to be using any of Google's resources for their scams*. They aren't the Internet Police or the telecom police. If they want to play cop, I'll put a cap pistol and tin sheriffs badge under their Christmas tree.

*It seems to me that Google needs to keep their GMail users from emailing out scams first. John 8:7.

So then, nothing to do with Google account takeover. Your last statement was in error then?

SMS and other mobile technologies are notoriously insecure (read up on SS7). Anyone who requests my phone number for 2FA deserves to have their accounts pwned.

... is SMS traffic to/from my mobile devices any of Googles concern?