Android will hang up on banking scammers for you - how its new anti-spoofing feature works
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ZDNET's key takeaways
- This Android feature aims to protect you from banking scams.
- It will detect and hang up calls from spoofed numbers.
- The feature will expand to more banks later this year.
Scammers love to impersonate businesses you trust in hopes of convincing you to fall for their cons. One tactic they use is to call you pretending to be from your bank or financial institution. The goal is to trick you into sending them money or revealing your account details. Now, Google is rolling out a new security tool that aims to combat these types of spoofed calls.
Designed to protect you from financial theft or account compromise, the feature aims to detect spoofed calls. Here's how it works.
First, you need to install your bank's app on your Android device. When you receive a call that seems...
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