WhatsApp’s new Scam Alert feature will flag scam messages while keeping your chats private
WhatsApp's new Scam Alert feature uses on-device AI to flag suspicious messages, keeping your private conversations fully unread by Meta.
WhatsApp has introduced a new Scam Alert feature to help protect users from fraudulent messages while maintaining the privacy of their conversations. This optional feature, currently in limited beta, uses artificial intelligence to flag suspicious messages by analyzing patterns in conversational structure and language cues. The AI model runs directly on the user's phone instead of on Meta's servers, ensuring that no message content is sent to Meta for processing.
Users who turn on Scam Alert will see warnings in specific chats if the AI detects likely scams, and they can then choose to block the sender, report the conversation, or continue chatting. If a warning is incorrect, users can mark the chat as trusted to stop future alerts. The feature also allows users to share the last five messages with WhatsApp to help improve the AI model's accuracy.
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