{"id":1337,"date":"2026-06-02T18:56:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2026-06-02T18:56:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:56:47","slug":"android-is-fighting-phone-scams-with-a-new-feature-to-prove-whos-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=1337","title":{"rendered":"Android Is Fighting Phone Scams With a New Feature to Prove Who\u2019s Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">I&#8217;ve been covering<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/how-to-block-calls-and-spam-messages\/\" class=\"text link\">spam calling<\/a> for years, so when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/google\/\" class=\"text link\">Google<\/a> offered me details about a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/android\/\" class=\"text link\">Android<\/a> feature built to detect and flag spoofed calls, I was ready to hear more. What I didn&#8217;t expect from the demo was to hear my own voice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cI&#8217;m so excited to be interviewing you today about this new fake-call detection feature!\u201d I heard myself saying, while a headshot I&#8217;ve used publicly for years popped up on the demo device. The caller ID name said \u201cLily.\u201d \u201cUnfortunately, I lost my wallet and I&#8217;m stuck. Any chance you can Venmo me so I can take an Uber to the interview?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">As my disembodied voice calmly made the ask, a pop-up appeared as an overlay on the regular call screen: \u201cThis may not be Lily. Someone may be pretending to call from your contact&#8217;s number.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">For Android phones calling each other, the new feature does a digital validity check and flags with a pop-up warning if a call isn&#8217;t coming from your contact\u2019s smartphone and may be a scam. When the feature flags a call as a scam, it instantly removes the contact photo from the backdrop of the call to underscore the seriousness of the situation (not shown in the prototype demo Google made for WIRED). And the feature also changes the entry in Android\u2019s recent call log to say \u201cUnknown caller\u201d instead of displaying the contact name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Spam calls have been a scourge for decades, and the threat has only ramped up as attackers have started incorporating AI voice-cloning tools into their attacks\u2014making it possible to convincingly mimic an acquaintance of a victim, or even a family member, in real time. And while a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/robocalls-spam-fix-stir-shaken\/\" class=\"text link\">years-long push<\/a> has improved detection of traditional robocalling, it hasn&#8217;t eliminated the problem, and not all spam calls get flagged. Those calls that still slip through the cracks are particularly problematic as attackers focus their attention on impersonation scams\u2014making it look like their call is coming from a number you trust, or at least recognize, and then using AI tools to sound like the person you expect when you pick up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">With these types of invasive and potentially devastating scams on the rise, Dave Kleidermacher, Android&#8217;s vice president of security and privacy, and Eugene Liderman, director of Android security and privacy product, say that there was a real desire within Google to move defenses for victims forward. And they emphasized that while an obvious strategy is to attempt to fight fire with fire\u2014to use AI tools to help detect voice clones in calls\u2014this strategy alone is insufficient. It can have false positives and false negatives, but it can also feed an endless arms race between attackers and defenders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cWe\u2019re always looking at whether there is a provable way, something much higher confidence that we can do,\u201d Kleidermacher says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The feature is built on the RCS communication standard and baked into the Google Dialer. Beginning today, it will start rolling out in updates for all Android phones running Android 12 (from 2021) and later. The mechanism uses RCS to digitally bind your phone number with your actual smartphone handset. When you call another Android user, your device will send what Kleidermacher describes as \u201ca real-time, silent background confirmation signal\u201d to the device of the person you&#8217;re calling to verify the legitimacy of your call. If that hardware-based confirmation is missing, the Google Dialer will flag the call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cIf you\u2019re calling me and we\u2019re in each others\u2019 mutual contacts databases, and we\u2019re both using the Google dialer that has this capability built into it, then I will always know if it\u2019s really you,\u201d Kleidermacher says. \u201cIf someone tries to call me through a VoIP session or some other mechanism and spoof your phone number and your voice, the Dialer will say that this is not you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/android-is-fighting-phone-scams-with-a-new-feature-to-prove-whos-calling\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been covering spam calling for years, so when Google offered me details about a new Android feature built to detect and flag spoofed calls, I was ready to hear more. 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