New Delhi, July 7 -- Bharti Airtel ("Airtel") has announced significant progress in its mission to protect customers in Mumbai from rising online fraud. As part of the nationwide rollout of its AI-powered fraud detection system, Airtel has successfully safeguarded more than 2.1 million users across the state - within just 50 days of launching its advanced fraud detection system.

Automatically enabled for all Airtel mobile and broadband customers, the advanced system scans and filters links across SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook, Instagram, email, and other browsers. It leverages real-time threat intelligence to examine over 1 billion URLs daily and blocks access to harmful sites in under 100 milliseconds.

For instance, if a resident r...