Google’s Phone app will flag scammers impersonating your contacts
Original: Google’s Phone app will tell you if a scammer is impersonating one of your contacts
Phone by Google will flag suspicious calls that appear to use the same number as one of your contacts.
Google is launching a Phone app feature aimed at AI impersonation scams. If a scammer’s call appears to come from the same number as one of your contacts, Phone by Google will mark it as suspicious. The warning gives users a chance to hang up instead of trusting a familiar-looking caller ID.
Google is rolling out a new anti-fraud feature for the Phone app, aimed at helping users identify phone scams that may involve AI identity impersonation. The danger of this type of attack lies in the fact that scammers may make a call appear to come from an existing contact in the user's address book; when the screen displays a familiar name and number, the person answering is more likely to let down their guard.
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