Have you ever tried to tear off by an alleged call from your bank or by a suspicious message? These types of scams are on the agenda, they are a huge risk. And Google wants to protect Android users with a function integrated into the heart of the system: the Detection of bank scams through calls It's almost a reality.
Since the smartphone is omnipresent and this device has the keys to our bank, we must pay particular attention to everything we find: It is relatively easy to fall into a scam. And they display us. This is why it is appreciated that Android has tools to avoid scams: the last one is already in the code.
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Google will hinder the bank's scams via the call of the call
The scam based on the bank's scam is governed by a very specific, also simple methodology. Is the following:
- Someone calls us by pretending to be our bank.
- The call may seem authentic: They could simulate the real number of the bank.
- The supposed employee of the entity will invent an excuse to try to scam us. For example, there is an amount of immobilized money, which blocked the card or any other alert which invites us to go to action.
- Once we fall into the trap, the crook will try to install an application for Take the phone control. Teamviewer style. The captures of the banking application are likely to ask us directly.
- If we access the application, the crook will take control of the phone and the bank account; Which will trigger funds.
The usual steps may vary, but the basic scheme is always the same: an appeal encouraging emergency; DESCESS to give access to the account; Silver emptying. And Google has prepared a way to stop the problem in the system. All thanks to Google Play Services.
As they discovered on Android Authority after an analysis of the game services in their latest version, Google introduced a means of detect access to bank data during a call. The function, called at the code level as “BankscamcalldeteccCoservice” (detection of fraudulent banking calls), will detect that a banking application works in the background during a person who is not on the agenda. In the event of detection of a positive case:
- On the mobile one Possible fraud notice In order to alert us on the risks of continuing to speak with the crook possible.
- Android would give the possibility of cutting the call and informing the phone number.
Google will keep a list of banking applications for which you will be alert in the background. This list must be updated because more and more banks are at risk of scams.
I should reach everyone, not only to those who update Android 16
Since this is a novelty already ready to act, and being that we are only days to see the official first of Android 16, the logical thing would be to think that the blocking of banking scams will only reach those who update. But not: Protection will reach all Androids which can update Google Play Services. In other words, from Android 6.
Google surely announced it at the next Android conference, “The Android Show”, marked for May 13. This will be one of the many news, we expect a good flood.
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