New Delhi, June 3 -- Google has launched a new security feature for Android to protect users from scammers using AI tools to impersonate voices of family members and fiends to steal money or get access to sensitive information. The new feature called Fake Call Detection can identify and warn users on Android when the system detects that the person on the other end may be spoofing the phone number of someone saved in their contacts while using AI-powered voice cloning technology.

Google says phone and online scams are on the rise. The company cited INTERPOL's Global Financial Fraud Threat Assessment from March this year, which identified impersonation fraud as one of the major contributors to more than $400 billion in global losses.

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