ScamRating

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  Graph of frequency of scam word use per email.

Inspiration

An attempt to understand the language and word choices the scammers use to analyze and use in prevention of scams.

What it does

It rates email on their likeliness of being a scam email by using word occurrences in the email.

How we built it

Utilizing MATLAB

Challenges we ran into

We had difficulty data cleaning the initial datasets and had a hard time coming up a method to quantify a likeliness of whether a email is a scam or not using certain words due to the data being not clean.

What we learned

We learned a bit in regards to NLP, bag of words, and using MATLAB.

What's next for ScamRating

Have a larger datasets / more modern scam emails. Using some database to store and collect this information.

Built With

• matlab
• python