The next time you’re about to tap a text message to resolve an unpaid toll balance, your Android phone may warn you to think twice.

Send people a text demanding money, get paid! But one scam will soon be less profitable, assuming Google nails the implementation of its new block on "unpaid toll" messages in Android. It willstart rolling out on Tuesday and is just one of several Android updates Google announced ahead of its developers' conference next week – along with cosmetic software changes and the expansion of its Gemini AI helper to Android-powered smartwatches and

Google is using Gemini Nano, its on-device large language model, to provide insight on risky websites so the tech giant is aware of more scams and can offer better protection against them. Google is already using Gemini Nano to protect users against remote tech support scams and hopes to extend the support to Android in the future.