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Poster: Exploring the Limits of Audio-Based Detection of Turkish Phone Call Scams

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arXiv:2606. 24523v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scam phone calls exploit vulnerable communities worldwide, yet research on detection has focused almost exclusively on English and other high-resource languages.

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