Turning the Tide on Scams: Bitdefender Joins The Global Anti-Scam Alliance to Level The Scam Playing Field

Our undying efforts to make the digital space safer have once again brought us to a milestone: we proudly announce we have joined the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA) as a founding and advisory board member.

Our goal is to help protect and educate worldwide consumers against scams and fraudulent activity and wield our cybersecurity expertise, tools and technologies to combat the rise of online scams.

Digital threats and scams know no borders, and the partnership we enter today will help support millions of digital citizens who get caught in increasingly intricate and damaging scam dealings.

“Our mission is to bring technology providers together with governments, law enforcement, consumer protection organizations and other key stakeholders to fight a massive global criminal network specializing in online scams and consumer fraud,” said Jorij Abraham, managing director, Global Anti-Scam Alliance. “Having the ability to leverage Bitdefender’s deep technical knowledge and decades of scam-focused research is critical in our work to help educate the public and build a truly global, cross-sector network to with disrupt cybercriminal operations.”

Trust is a core value that has driven us throughout our industry-leading achievements. By sharing our expertise and insights, we further commit to bolstering the fight against cybercrime on a global scale.

This partnership not only increases international collaboration by ensuring fraudulent activity is traced across borders but also aims to empower consumers and support vulnerable individuals and victims through cohesive prevention actions under the global banner of a dedicated scam-busting unit.

Why is this important?

While awareness and education are key in fighting cybercrime and scams implicitly, the introduction of AI and DeepFake technology, which is steadily becoming ubiquitous with the 2024 scam agenda, makes it more difficult for consumers worldwide to identify and protect against scams.

Bitdefender’s scam research delves deep into how cybercrooks adapt and leverage the popularity of AI to create new swindles or improve existing ones for maximum efficiency.

Through voice cloning and other deepfake scams, cybercriminals have propagated their fraudulent activity with little effort by simply piggybacking on the outreach of social media networks that have ensnared more than half of the global population.

As a result, anti-scam training and user vigilance badly need a boost, which can be facilitated by handy scam-fighting tools and technologies that can level the playing field.

Enter Bitdefender’s comprehensive and innovative scam detection and prevention technologies designed to combat cybercrime, including online scams that inflict losses estimated at $55 billion worldwide.

In addition to the industry’s largest threat intelligence repository powered by hundreds of millions of sensors, Bitdefender’s consumer-oriented portfolio offers a comprehensive array of tools and solutions designed to prevent and defend against scams and fraud, including Bitdefender Scamio.

Bitdefender Scamio is our next-generation AI-powered scam detector chatbot that combines AI with our innovative threat-detection algorithms and machine learning to identify even the most sophisticated scams. Users can access Scamio on any device or operating system via web browser, Facebook Messenger, or WhatsApp. The scam detection tool is free to use and offers a user-friendly interface where users can check if any suspicious correspondence they have received is a scam attempt, or they can describe a conversation or scenario to receive a verdict in seconds.

You can also help others stay safe by sharing Scamio with them in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Romania, Australia, and the UK