https://security.googleblog.com/2025/03/new-ai-powered-scam-detection-features.html
Google has launched AI-powered scam detection features for Android devices, designed to protect users from conversational fraud. These features target scams that start innocently but escalate into harmful situations, as well as phone call scams using spoofed numbers.
Google partnered with financial institutions to develop AI models that can identify suspicious patterns in conversations and provide real-time warnings. These models operate entirely on-device, ensuring user privacy. Users can choose to dismiss or report and block suspicious senders. The feature is enabled by default for conversations with unknown numbers.
A similar AI-powered scam detection feature for phone calls is being expanded to English-speaking Pixel 9+ users in the U.S. This feature, which is optional, processes call audio ephemerally and notifies participants when it is active.
These developments follow Google’s announcement that over one billion Chrome users are using Enhanced Protection mode, which utilizes AI and machine learning to detect phishing, social engineering, and scam techniques.