Inspiration

One of our grandparents got scammed by a phishing email online because they had no way to know if an email they got sent was legitimate or not

What it does

It is a Chrome Extension that uses Gemini's API to process the content of an email and assign it a score 1-10 depending on how likely the email is to be a phishing email

How we built it

It was built with a react frontend and a node.js with express backend

Challenges we ran into

We couldn't figure out how to integrate GMail's API into the project and it took us a while to get the Gemini API working

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Wrote a good Gemini prompt that returned a 1-10 value that was accurate and also implemented a color changing background dependent on the severity score assigned by Gemini

What we learned

Look more in depth into the API connections before you start the project and how to run extensions on chrome

What's next for ReelSecure

Implementing the GMail API and expanding the phishing awareness outside of emails

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