PhishHook

Web-based service to allow people to monitor their emails and be wary of possible Phishing emails

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Inspiration

Motivated by the influx of old people falling for phishing scams and the injustice done to them.

What it does

The website uses Gmail API to keep track of a user's emails within 12 hours, and runs some python scripts to determine the likelihood of the email being a scam using social engineering and discrepancies in the email's info as well as running further investigations on data breaches connected to the user's email address.

How we built it

Through connecting 4 API's, we connected the Supabase DB with a python script, the "Have I been Pawned" service as well as using Gmail's API to retrieve email content to run through the script.

Challenges we ran into

Definitely connecting all the API's with varying levels of effective and helpful documentation(looking at you, Gmail API) while using different languages

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Despite the need to simplify the logic scripts for the phishing checks over the 25 hours, we are quite proud of our ingenuity with coming up with solutions to achieve similarly ranked results through simpler methodology. Additionally, simply managing to present a working project by the end of the session has been impressive on it's own.

What we learned

To plan and prepare earlier and decide on the type of program we would like to develop prior to the event rather than 3 hours in.

What's next for PhishHook

Simply scalability and better UX

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