Google Message to roll out ‘cross-country’ to combat spam texts: Report

Cross-country will work as shield to protect users from fraudulent messages after detecting suspicious accounts
An undated image of a person sending text message. — Unsplash
An undated image of a person sending text message. — Unsplash

Users all across the globe frequently face the issue of spam and scam messages but Google Messages has an impressive feature of auto spam detection that warns after automatically detecting a spam message and directly sending it to the spam folder.

To ensure user's utmost security, Google is reportedly working on a "cross-country" folder to combat spam messages received from international unknown sources. 

Apart from cross-country folder, the app exhibits a pop-up box along with a warning after clicking on a link from Rich Communications Services (RCS) message received from any suspicious account. 

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These spam messages pose a great threat to user's privacy, but to encounter this problem, the app seems to be proactively working, as it already provides several ways to appropriately re-arrange the received texts, along with spam messages that come in your Inbox, the spam folder where you save the essential information.

Cross-country folder

According to the reports, Alphabet-owned Google is currently preparing the latest categorisation folder that will gather the messages received from unidentified international accounts, as mentioned earlier. 

This latest folder is expected to be dubbed “cross-country,” which would work as a shield to protect users from fraudulent messages after detecting suspicious accounts.

Users would reportedly receive an option to toggle the sorting feature off. Moreover, users would also be able to manually select the spam messages as cross-country and even move the already marked texts to the regular inbox, if in case they are received from a known source.

Additionally, the folder has just appeared in a code, so other details regarding the rollout and more are still under wraps which will be confirmed ahead of release.