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Your Android phone is about to get much better at blocking scams

Digital Trends·Pranob Mehrotra·6 months ago
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Google has announced a broad set of security upgrades for Android at the Android Show I/O Edition today, and the most impactful ones target the scams that cost users real money. From automatically hanging up on fake bank calls to hiding your one-time passwords (OTPs) from malicious apps, the updates add up to Google’s most significant push yet to protect Android users from fraudsters and rogue software.

Your bank will verify its own calls

The headliner of today’s announcement is verified financial calls, a new feature that automatically ends phone calls from numbers spoofing your bank or financial institution. Phone spoofing, where scammers use internet-based calling systems to fake a trusted caller ID, costs users an estimated $950 million annually worldwide.…

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