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Google Is Using On-Device AI to Spot Scam Texts and Investment Fraud
- Google is expanding its AI flagging feature, Scam Detection, to alert users about potential scams like crypto scams, financial impersonation, gift card scams, and more in the Google Messages app.
- Scammers, particularly from Chinese groups, send fraudulent messages demanding payments or personal information, leading to data theft when users click on provided links.
- AI on-device allows detection of sophisticated scams like investment or romance scams that evolve over time, where scammers build trust before exploiting victims.
- Companies like O2 and scam baiter Kitboga use AI to combat scammers, while Meta introduces pop-up warnings in chat messages for potential payments.
- F-Secure has created a tool to identify and block scam messages, aiming to reduce the success rate of scammers by adding friction to contacting unknown accounts.
- Google has seen positive impacts from using machine learning to detect scam messages in real time, with plans to expand these protections to third-party communication platforms.
- The company is testing scam detection for phone calls and aims for broader deployment in the future to combat various forms of fraudulent activities.
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