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ScamCheck is a scam detector for everyday people. Paste a suspicious text, email or link, or drop in a screenshot. In seconds you’ll know whether it’s a scam, suspicious, or safe. ScamCheck doesn’t just give a yes or no. It quotes the exact phrases that gave the message away, names the brand being impersonated, and tells you what to do next.

It runs on Google Gemini’s Interactions API. Gemini reads screenshots directly and uses Google Search grounding to check senders, URLs and wording against scams reported online, so it keeps up with new tricks that fixed keyword lists miss. A strict JSON schema keeps every answer consistent. The prompt only allows safe advice, and it tells the model to say “safe” for real messages instead of inventing problems.

Team Members: Yash Parakh, Bryce Spann, Sharad Kota

Built with

Python, Flask, Google Gemini (google-genai SDK), HTML/CSS/JS.

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    Best Use of the Google Gemini API

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