Jun 6, 2026 · 2 hr 34 min · 14 segments
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Google's coolest feature that they have announced for Android in my opinion, in years.
They're rolling out fake call detection, which is aimed at scammers who spoof a contact's number and use AI voice cloning to impersonate them.
Your mom calls, they sound exactly like your mom, but it's actually a scammer asking you to send emergency money to some Bitcoin wallet or something.
But rather than analyzing the audio to detect a fake voice, what it's actually doing is a cryptographic check between your devices.
So when a real contact calls you, their phone will quietly send your phone a real-time confirmation signal over end-to-end encrypted RCS.
When a malicious actor spoofs the number, which they can do, Veritasium did a whole like video on this, um, they can't spoof the signal.
If that signal, if that encrypted signal is missing, then you'll get a warning that tells you, "Hey, um, this could be a fake call.
This could be a scammer." Now, the catch is that both people have to use the phone by Google app and have each other saved in their contacts, they have to be running Android 12 or newer, and they have to have RCS enabled.
However, there's a tiny little note in the footer of this press release or article or blog post or whatever it was that I was reading that says, "And hey, by the way, this is based on RCS." So we like totally want it to be a cross-platform thing.
Google's coolest feature that they have announced for Android in my opinion, in years.
They're rolling out fake call detection, which is aimed at scammers who spoof a contact's number and use AI voice cloning to impersonate them.
Your mom calls, they sound exactly like your mom, but it's actually a scammer asking you to send emergency money to some Bitcoin wallet or something.
But rather than analyzing the audio to detect a fake voice, what it's actually doing is a cryptographic check between your devices.
So when a real contact calls you, their phone will quietly send your phone a real-time confirmation signal over end-to-end encrypted RCS.
When a malicious actor spoofs the number, which they can do, Veritasium did a whole like video on this, um, they can't spoof the signal.
If that signal, if that encrypted signal is missing, then you'll get a warning that tells you, "Hey, um, this could be a fake call.
This could be a scammer." Now, the catch is that both people have to use the phone by Google app and have each other saved in their contacts, they have to be running Android 12 or newer, and they have to have RCS enabled.
However, there's a tiny little note in the footer of this press release or article or blog post or whatever it was that I was reading that says, "And hey, by the way, this is based on RCS." So we like totally want it to be a cross-platform thing.
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