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Google’s Android 16 Takes Aim at Phone and Text Scams
When Android 16 launches in June, it'll come packed with a few tricks to keep the phone and text scammer scourge at bay.
What strikes me as most interesting is that these protections are aimed at safeguarding users against social engineering, in which a scammer uses not hacking skills to access what they shouldn’t, but rather a manipulative set of behaviors designed to gain the confidence of the target and then trick them into handing over what they want. “Android’s new in-call protections provide an additional layer of defense, preventing you from taking risky security actions during a call, like: Tackling the jerks who waste our time with their admittedly sometimes clever attempts to part us with our cash, dignity, sanity, and private information.
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