More than half of Americans reported receiving at least one scam call per day in 2024. To combat the rise of sophisticated conversational scams that deceive victims over the course of a phone call, we introduced Scam Detection late last year to U.S.-based English-speaking Phone by Google public beta users on Pixel phones.
We use AI models processed on-device to analyze conversations in real-time and warn users of potential scams. If a caller, for example, tries to get you to provide payment via gift cards to complete a delivery, Scam Detection will alert you through audio and haptic notifications and display a warning on your phone that the call may be a scam.
Unfortunately my 70 year old neighbor is tech illiterate so they only know how to call and answer calls on the smartphone they got given by the phone service they use. Also some places i order food from have such shit online ordering or whats essentialy a test app for their app that phone calls are just so fucking easier. Heck official apps for chains dont let you log in if you have a vpn since they still go through your browser app and im NOT letting my browser through clean to order shite so again, calling works just fine.