Google adds a scam-detection feature, built on RCS, to Android 12 and later that verifies whether a call is coming from the caller's actual Android smartphone
Available for Android 12 and later, the anti-scam feature is baked into Google Dialer, which sends a silent “confirmation signal” …
Wired Lily Hay Newman
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NEW: Android users, your scam call-detection is about to get a lot better. @lhn.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/androi...
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Android Is Fighting Phone Scams With a New Feature to Prove Who's Calling
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Android Is Fighting Phone Scams With a New Feature to Prove Who's Calling | Available for Android 12 and later, the anti-scam feature is baked into Google Dialer …
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When we sat down with Lily Hay Newman at WIRED, she wasn't expecting to hear her own cloned voice asking for money from a spoofed number. …
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Android introduces fake call detection to stop deepfake scams