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I Made ScamLens So My Family Could Check Suspicious Messages Without Sending Them to the Cloud

This is my submission for the Hacktoberfest 2026 Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend . What I Built My family gets scam messages all the time. Fake bank alerts. KYC requests.

  • ScamLens app analyzes messages and screenshots locally without cloud AI
  • Demonstrated with phishing, social engineering, and legitimate OTP scenarios
  • Fix added semantic fields to distinguish message types for accurate classification

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