{"slug": "bell-rolling-out-new-tool-to-detect-and-flag-spoofed-phone-calls-using-ai", "title": "Bell rolling out new tool to detect and flag spoofed phone calls using AI", "summary": "Bell Canada is launching an AI-powered tool to detect and flag spoofed phone calls, adding protection against caller ID spoofing fraud. The feature, rolling out automatically to customers across Bell, Virgin Plus, Lucky Mobile, PC Mobile, No Name, and Maxi mobile services, builds on Bell's suspicious call detection launched last year, which has analyzed over 4.4 billion calls and blocked or labelled more than 540 million suspicious calls.", "body_md": "MONTREAL — Bell Canada is launching an artificial intelligence-powered feature that it says can identify and flag spoofed phone calls.\n\nThe telecommunications company says the tool will help protect customers against fraud involving caller ID spoofing, a tactic used by scammers to impersonate organizations, local businesses or personal contacts.\n\nSteve Karan, Bell's vice-president of wireless products and logistics, says this adds \"another powerful layer of protection\" to keep Canadians safe as phone fraud grows more sophisticated.\n\nIt builds on Bell's suspicious call detection feature launched last year, which uses artificial intelligence analytics to monitor incoming calls in real time and alert customers to potential spam or fraud.\n\nSince that feature was launched, Bell says it has analyzed more than 4.4 billion calls and blocked or labelled more than 540 million suspicious or fraudulent calls.\n\nThe carrier is rolling out the new spoofing-detection capability automatically to customers using any iOS and Android phones across Bell, Virgin Plus, Lucky Mobile, PC Mobile, No Name and Maxi mobile services.\n\nThis report by The Canadian Press was first published July 28, 2026.\n\nCompanies in this story: (TSX:BCE)\n\nThe Canadian Press", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bell-rolling-out-new-tool-to-detect-and-flag-spoofed-phone-calls-using-ai", "canonical_source": "https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bell-rolling-tool-detect-flag-124154961.html", "published_at": "2026-07-28 12:41:54+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-28 12:52:27.926943+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Bell Canada", "Steve Karan", "Virgin Plus", "Lucky Mobile", "PC Mobile", "No Name", "Maxi mobile", "The Canadian Press"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bell-rolling-out-new-tool-to-detect-and-flag-spoofed-phone-calls-using-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bell-rolling-out-new-tool-to-detect-and-flag-spoofed-phone-calls-using-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bell-rolling-out-new-tool-to-detect-and-flag-spoofed-phone-calls-using-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bell-rolling-out-new-tool-to-detect-and-flag-spoofed-phone-calls-using-ai.jsonld"}}