With Jamnai, Google wants to thwart phone scammers

Call from the bank, instant message and even a familiar voice of someone; Android wants to step in before scammers can trick you. The post Google with Jamnai wants to thwart phone scammers appeared first on Safir Arjan.

According to Ambassador Arjan, on 23 Mehr 1405, Google unveiled new security capabilities for Android phones that identify fraudulent messages, suspicious links, and fake calls with the help of artificial intelligence. These measures are designed to tackle more sophisticated fraud methods, including fake bank messages, spoofed numbers and calls made by impersonating people's voices. Google says current fraud detection tools in phone and messaging apps detect more than 5 million suspicious calls and messages each month; New features are supposed to expand the scope of this protection.

A new part of these protections is related to Google's Messenger app, which uses Jamnai's AI-based cloud analytics to analyze complex conversations with anonymous senders for signs of fraud. This analysis is done in the secure environment of private artificial intelligence processing to protect users' privacy. Also, Jamna Nano's AI model on the phone itself checks anonymous links using up-to-date web information and displays clearer warnings before opening links sent from unsaved numbers.

This cloud feature is disabled by default and can be enabled by qualified users. In addition, fraud detection in messaging notifications, previously available on Pixel phones, is expected to reach hundreds of millions more users by the end of this year through Android device manufacturer partners. Android also extends the ability to hide sensitive information, such as account login sections and payment pages, during live page sharing to the Chrome browser and Android Web View.

Google has also taken new measures to deal with call forwarding abuse: Android prevents apps from silently activating call forwarding in the background, and warns before executing call forwarding codes that the user enters manually. The company also expands the call verification system of banks; A system that checks whether the incoming call is actually from the bank's call center or someone with a fake number trying to trick the user. If the confirmation is not done, the call will be automatically disconnected.

Google has announced that since June this year, this system alone has blocked more than 3 million fake calls related to Banco de Brasil and Itao Unibanco. Revolut and several other international financial institutions also support this feature. Google advises users to keep their operating systems and applications up to date and to independently verify the identity of the caller or sender of a message when receiving financial requests or sensitive information.