{"id":1028790,"date":"2026-08-14T10:41:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028790"},"modified":"2026-08-14T10:41:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:11:57","slug":"whatsapp-is-now-using-ai-to-catch-scammers-before-they-can-trick-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/14\/whatsapp-is-now-using-ai-to-catch-scammers-before-they-can-trick-you\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp is now using AI to catch scammers before they can trick you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is looking to tackle the increasing number of scams on the platform by using the power of artificial intelligence. The company on Thursday announced a new experimental feature called Scam Detection that uses on-device AI models to flag suspicious conversations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs scam tactics evolve, from impersonation to social engineering to AI-generated lures, we\u2019re always evolving as well, so that our protections stay ahead of scammers while protecting people\u2019s personal messages with end-to-end encryption,\u201d Meta wrote in a blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is looking to tackle the increasing number of scams on the platform by using the power of artificial intelligence. The company on Thursday announced a new experimental feature called Scam Detection that uses on-device AI models to flag suspicious conversations. \u201cAs scam tactics evolve, from impersonation to social engineering to AI-generated lures, we\u2019re always evolving as well, so that our protections stay ahead of scammers while protecting people\u2019s personal messages with end-to-end encryption,\u201d Meta wrote in a blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028791,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028790\/revisions\/1028791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}