Meta· Llama / infrastructureHow We’re Building Scam Alert on WhatsApp With End-to-End Encryption and Verifiability Guarantees
WhatsApp is introducing Scam Alert, an optional on-device ML feature that detects scam messages without sending any message content to servers, using a transparent model that can be independently verified.
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an early look at Scam Alert, a new, optional feature that runs an on-device machine learning model to alert a user about potential scam messages.
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- Announced
- 12 Aug 2026 13:00 UTC
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