A future feature will block SMS from unknown overseas senders.
Messages will soon be receiving a number of new safety features, as Google has just announced. Texts that potentially lead to fraud are the focus of enhanced scam detection, which is centered around these texts. The update, according to the business, offers “improved analysis of scammy texts.” For the time being, this technology will give priority to scams that involve job offers and that involve parcel delivery.
If Google Messages determines that a message is likely to be fraudulent, it will either transfer the message to the spam folder or send a warning. The program employs machine learning models that are installed on the device itself in order to identify these scams; hence, chats will be kept confidential. Beta users who have spam protection turned on are now receiving this upgrade as it is being rolled out.
The intelligent warnings function, which has been in the pilot stage for some time, is also going to be rolled out to a wider audience within Google. Users are alerted by this program whenever they receive a link from an unknown sender, and it also “blocks messages with links from suspicious senders” automatically. In addition, the improved safety features include additional warnings for sensitive content, which automatically blur photographs that may include nudity. It is a feature that may be activated voluntarily, and it also stores everything on the device. Within the next few months, it will become apparent.
Lastly, there is a technology that is going to be released in the near future that will enable individuals to disable communications sent from unknown overseas senders, so preventing the fraud from being started at its origin. The communications sent by international senders who are not already included in the contacts list will be automatically hidden as a result of this action. Towards the end of this year, this feature will be implemented in Singapore as part of a test program before being expanded to additional countries.
Google has stated that it is currently working on a contact verification capability for Android systems, in addition to the tools that have been mentioned above. In the event that con artists attempt to imitate one of your contacts, this should assist put a stop to their efforts. It has been announced by the corporation that this feature will be accessible at some point during the following year.