“Your dog died…”: Actor tells wild story, scammer is supposed to extort money | Latest News India

Bali said the caller told her that her dog had been hit by a car and taken to a nearby morgue with a life-threatening injury. The caller persuaded the actress to send money so that he could transport the animal in an ambulance.

She declined the call, but was called again and told that it might be someone else’s dog from her neighborhood, and Bali was again persuaded to send money. “It was a very strange conversation and when he called me for the third time, I realized it was a scam,” the actress said.

What Airtel claims?

She was speaking at a roundtable organized by telecom operator Airtel to discuss the network’s newly launched anti-spam technology. Tech influencers Rajiv Makhni, Technical Guruji aka Gaurav Chaudhary, journalist Faye D’Souza, actor Asish Vidyarthi and comedian Rohan Joshi were present.

Attendees shared their personal stories of spam and scams and a “game-changing step” that Airtel has taken to address the growing threat of spam calls.

Airtel claims to have launched the industry’s first network-wide spam fighting solution that detects spam calls and SMS in less than 2 milliseconds.

“We have implemented a solution that shows suspected spam calls/SMS received by Airtel customers on their phone in real time. This is done via AI-based technology that leverages network intelligence. Identification of suspicious spam calls/SMS is based on usage pattern, frequency, call duration, suspicious URL usage, IMEI and over 250 derived parameters that help determine spam behavior and are available to customers who have a VoLTE -enabled smartphone,” says a question-and-answer session on the company’s website.