In response to rising nuisance calls from international numbers in India, WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging platform, said Thursday that new artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will reduce such calls by at least 50. ) announced that it had introduced the system. percent.
The development comes after IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the ministry would notify the Meta-owned company about the issue of spam calls from unknown international numbers.
“We will continue to offer several safety tools such as Block & Report within WhatsApp, continuously build safety education and awareness for our users, and actively weed out bad actors from our platform. However, bad actors find many ways to trick users.International Scam Calls”This is a new tactic that bad actors have recently adopted. By sending missed calls, interested users can They try to trick you into calling or sending back messages, but you end up being scammed,” a WhatsApp spokesperson told ABP Live in a statement.
“Therefore, we have enhanced our AI and ML systems to significantly reduce such incidents. We expect to be able to effectively control , and we will continue to “work tirelessly to ensure a safe experience for our users,” a WhatsApp spokesperson added.
WhatsApp users in India have recently reported a spike in incoming international spam calls, mostly from international numbers starting with Indonesia (+62), Kenya (+254) and Ethiopia (+251) reported to be from Malaysia (+60), Vietnam (+84). Most of these numbers try to lure users into job offers through international numbers.
Scammers are said to utilize end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms such as Telegram and WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging platform, to carry out these scams. We strongly advise you not to answer such unwanted calls. This is part of a larger scam in which scammers lure unsuspecting users with quick promises of money and defraud them out of thousands of dollars.
