Who's the Scam

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Inspiration

Many elderly face significant challenges due to the lack of awareness of some new ways that people scam, such as a using AI. We wanted to build an educational tool that presents scenarios to the elderly while allowing them to be

What it does

This is a gamification of the various scenarios in which scammers try to target users and where the users could be more vigilant

How we built it

React (Typescript) and Python for the backend.

Challenges we ran into

Some of our team members had to pick up new skills, such as programming in react and others had to learn to use design tools.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

While we were able to come up with the several levels of the app, we had to scope the levels to be doable within the timeline. We had to make decisions that could allow us to prepare the demo but present the complete idea.

What we learned

How to gamify learning effectively by borrowing mechanics from popular apps. Practical lessons in combining frontend frameworks with backend APIs for real-time interactivity.

What's next for Who's the Scam

Add AI-generated scam messages for infinite practice variety.
Introduce difficulty levels so users can progress from beginner to advanced scam spotting.
Expand modules to include voice phishing (vishing) and deepfake recognition.