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WhatsApp Scam Alert detects scam messages on-device

WhatsApp introduced an optional feature, Scam Alert, which uses on-device machine learning models under end-to-end encryption to identify potential scam messages; message content does not leave the device or get automatically reported.

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Frontline Lab
Source
Meta Engineering Blog(RSS)
Source author
Meta Engineering Blog(RSS)
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Collected
2026-08-13

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WhatsApp introduced an optional feature, Scam Alert, which uses on-device machine learning models under end-to-end encryption to identify potential scam messages; message content does not leave the device or get automatically reported.

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