Android owners must NOT ignore important new phone alert or it could lead to disaster for their bank accounts

GOOGLE has introduced a marque caller alert connected Android phones that each idiosyncratic indispensable look retired for.

Scammers bargain an estimated £787billion from radical crossed the globe a twelvemonth and they are perpetually evolving their tactics.

But tech elephantine Google has travel up with a clever mode to support radical from sneaky attacks.

Sophisticated AI built into your telephone tin observe cardinal signs of an on-going scam successful real-time.

It volition pop-up arsenic an alert connected your handset urging you to extremity the call.

Your telephone volition besides vibrate.

"Likely scam - suspicious enactment detected for this call," it reads.

The tech looks for speech patterns commonly linked to fraud.

"For example, if a caller claims to beryllium from your slope and asks you to urgently transportation funds owed to an alleged relationship breach, Scam Detection volition process the telephone to find whether the telephone is apt spam and, if so, tin supply an audio and haptic alert and ocular informing that the telephone whitethorn beryllium a scam," Google says.

Scam Detection is switched disconnected by default truthful you volition request to power it connected to payment from the added furniture of protection.

The diagnostic is processed on-device, truthful nary chat audio oregon transcription is stored connected your phone, nor is it sent to Google servers oregon anyplace else.

It is disposable connected the latest Pixel 9 smartphones first, earlier rolling retired to older Pixels.

Other Android brands volition besides get entree to it soon.

Of course, the alert tin lone bash truthful overmuch and you should inactive beryllium vigilant erstwhile taking calls.

The telephone alert strategy isn't the lone caller instrumentality Google has released.

 A unrecorded menace detection volition present beryllium connected manus to present real-time alerts of harmful apps identified by Google Play Protect.

"At launch, unrecorded menace detection volition absorption connected stalkerware, codification that whitethorn cod idiosyncratic oregon delicate information for monitoring purposes without idiosyncratic consent, and we volition research expanding its detection to different types of harmful apps successful the future," the steadfast says.