SMS & Email Scam Detector

Tells legitimate messages, marketing spam and phishing apart, for texts and emails, and shows which words drove the decision.

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The model runs entirely in your browser, so messages you check never leave your device. It's an 82 MB download the first time; after that it's cached.

Known weakness: genuine service messages (one-time codes, delivery updates, bank alerts) are often flagged, because the public training data has the scams that imitate them but almost none of the real ones. Why

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How it compares (campaigns held out of training)

Macro-F1 averages the three classes. "2023-25 phishing" is the share of phishing emails from 2023 to 2025 flagged as scams by models trained only on older data. The methodology, figures and error analysis are in the report.