# How Android and Google Messages protect users from mobile scams

DevFeed: [How Android and Google Messages protect users from mobile scams](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-android-provides-the-most-effective-protection-to-keep-you-safe-from-mobile-scams-19803.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://security.googleblog.com/2025/10/how-android-protects-you-from-scams.html>)

Author: Edward Fernandez (noreply@blogger.com)

Published: 2025-10-30T16:59:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Google Online Security](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/google-online-security.md>)

Topics: [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [Cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cybersecurity.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [Google AI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google-ai.md>), [iOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ios.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [iphone](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/iphone.md>), [Messaging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/messaging.md>)

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## AI overview

This article describes Android's layered protections against mobile scams, including defenses for malicious calls and messages and safety checks for RCS. It also presents a Google and YouGov survey comparing reported scam experiences and confidence among Android and iOS users in the U.S., India, and Brazil.

## Source excerpt

Posted by Lyubov Farafonova, Product Manager, Phone by Google; Alberto Pastor Nieto, Sr. Product Manager Google Messages and RCS Spam and Abuse; Vijay Pareek, Manager, Android Messaging Trust and Safety As Cybersecurity Awareness Month wraps up, we're focusing on one of today's most pervasive digital threats: mobile scams. In the last 12 months, fraudsters have used advanced AI tools to create more convincing schemes, resulting in over $400 billion in stolen funds globally.¹ For years, Android has been on the frontlines in the battle against scammers, using the best of Google AI to build proactive, multi-layered protections that can anticipate and block scams before they reach you. Android's scam defenses protect users around the world from over 10 billion suspected malicious calls and messages every month2. In addition, Google continuously performs safety checks to maintain the integrity of the RCS service. In the past month alone, this ongoing process blocked over 100 million suspicious numbers from using RCS, stopping potential scams before they could even be sent. To show how our scam protections work in the real world, we asked users and independent security experts to compare how well Android and iOS protect you from these threats. We're also releasing a new report that explains how modern text scams are orchestrated, helping you understand the tactics fraudsters use and how to spot them. Survey shows Android users' confidence in scam protections Google and YouGov3 surveyed 5,000 smartphone users across the U.S., India, and Brazil about their scam experiences. The findings were clear: Android users reported receiving fewer scam texts and felt more confident that their device was keeping them safe. Android users were 58% more likely than iOS users to say they had not received any scam texts in the week prior to the survey. The advantage was even stronger on Pixel, where users were 96% more likely than iPhone owners to report zero scam texts4. At the other end o