Android adds AI-powered scam alerts, hangs up on bank impostors

Google’s new scam protections cover Google Messages and third-party messaging apps, with an enhanced protection mode, expanded scam alerts and safeguards against call-forwarding and screen-sharing scams. “With scams growing harder to spot, it’s nearly impossible for users to catch every red flag themselves. That’s why Android’s built-in defenses actively intercept these threats before they reach you,” Alberto Pastor Nieto, Senior Product Manager at Google Messages, and Shaifali Bhandari, Product