Google is back in the news with its latest edition of the Safer India event, where the company talks about various initiatives to protect the internet users. Google announced that India has 700 million users online as of August 25, which has grown from 600 million in the past one year.
Google is also bringing new campaigns for the safety of online transactions, and especially keeping them aware about various scams that are out there to prey on them. The company also cited a Norton report which talks about a staggering 18 million cyberattacks in the first 5 months of 2022 in India.
Many people have talked about receiving false electricity board messages and even job opening profiles, and clicking on them can end up hurting the user in different ways. Such scammers have become hard to track, and even Google, with all its might in AI and ML has not been able to thwart the danger.
It claims to have acted on these scammers by suspending their accounts, and restricting entry of these actors, but even then, incidents like these have been hard to control.
So, now the company wants to educate people, for which it is coming out with ad campaigns that make them aware about such instances, and asking them to be careful when such messages come to their phones.
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The online scam also includes people mistakenly sharing their payment codes with scammers, who end up…
