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Google Phone wants to be your best ally against phone scams, and it has two new weapons to make it happen

  • November 21, 2024
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Google Phone is already one of the best options to protect you from spam calls, and now also wants to protect you from scammers. In addition to using

Google Phone is already one of the best options to protect you from spam calls, and now also wants to protect you from scammers. In addition to using artificial intelligence to detect potential scams, Google will also draw on reports from users who answered the call and determined it was a scam.

Google phone now globally enables the button Search the phone number that called you on GoogleIn addition to trying a short survey, you can let the person calling you know that they are a scammer and what they want. We hope these reports will be used to train AI and Google’s own Phone filter.

Report scams to Google

For some time now, Google Phone has allowed us to report a call as spam with a long tap. Now this is copied to present us report spam or scam calls separately. First, unsolicited commercial calls; second, fraud attempts.

The funny thing is, as noted on Android Authority, once we report a call as a scam, it keeps us Additional questions about what fraud is: What was asked of you and who acted like a fraudster.

report fraud

Screenshots from Android Authority

These questions will be used improve protection functions From Google, this likely means Google trained its AI on this or simply flagged it more accurately in caller ID.

Search numbers on Google

Report

On the other hand, finally Google Phone generally shows this: Button to search for a phone on Googlea person has a magnifying glass symbol on him. This button appears when you tap a specific call in the recent call log and contains the following text: To call.

What this button does Search phone number on GoogleIn many cases it will give you results from places like Spam List. Hopefully this number will have reports from users letting them know if this is a scam or not.

Xataka on Android | I don’t care about robocalls since I have this function enabled on my Android phone. And you can do it too

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