Android checks google messages and calls through AI for potential fraud attempts

Google has announced a new security function for Android devices that must be able to identify fraud attempts by artificial intelligence (AI). To do this, the system monitors news on Google messages, but also calls, and warns the user in the real time of potential scam. The group promises that the function only runs on the device and the interaction remains private. First, detection of scams in Google messages would be limited to English -speaking countries, but will be expanded to further areas in future.

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This AI security function is an extension of protective measures for Google messages already introduced in October last year. Here too, it was about protection against fraud attempts, but also about the warning of dangerous links. Many users recently saw a naked photo warner for Android system safetycore, smartphones. In this case, Android monitors news and warns possibly sensitive materials.

AI trains on sophisticated and general efforts in fraud

But now the data group emphasizes the use of AI to recognize fraud efforts. Is support Google according to her own safety blog To understand the most sophisticated and general scams derived from financial institutions around the world that affect their customers. The exchange of news often starts harmlessly, but after a while the victim is manipulated to hand over private data, transfer money or switch to other Messenger apps.

The general scam warns users of potential fraud attempts before starting conservation negotiations and is based on the telephone number. But many scammers hide them or use telephone numbers of reliable companies if the victim should find more. Therefore, the exchange of news in Google messages will be continuously monitored in the future, so that Android also causes warnings during the conversation, suspicious messages should be recognized.

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Such monitoring of private conversations rings the bell of the alarm. But Google has promised that AI security function is performed only at the local level. The news will be on Android device. If the user reports a recognized fraud attempt, only the details of the scammer and its last messages will be sent to Google and the mobile phone provider.

Scam check for call also

This also applies to fraud recognition to the calls that Google introduced in the USA at the end of 2024 for some pixel smartphones in the United States. Android reports by warning and vibration while talking about payment. Even here, the talks are not recorded or sent according to Google. Unlike the detection of the scam in Google messages, this function is not active by default for calls, which depends on the user.

The new AI security function for Google messages is initially introduced in the United States as well as English in Canada and Great Britain. An expansion should be followed soon for other countries, but it is not clear when it will be done in German as well. In this country, Telecom’s SMS Firewall, which is only announced by the German mobile phone only comes first for April. Its purpose is to protect the recipients from fatal messages, through which they can install malware or fall for fraud stitches. However, it is limited to traditional SMS.

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