Gone Phishin

Project Description

Chrome extension for real-time email phishing detection.

Project Overview

Collaborated with a team to build a Chrome extension that integrates with the Google Gemini API to detect and analyze phishing attempts within Gmail. The tool scans incoming messages and provides users with a clear confidence score and an AI-generated explanation, helping them identify sophisticated scams and significantly reducing review time.

My Role

Backend / Extension Developer (Team Project)

The Problem

Needed a way to detect emails that weren't caught by normal spam filters

Key Contributions

• ✦Built a Python Flask backend connected to the Gemini API.
• ✦Analyzed email content with 92% accuracy across over 100 tested runs.
• ✦Developed a user-friendly Chrome extension allowing on-demand phishing detection and evaluation.
• ✦Scanned Gmail messages to flag suspicious content and presented users with a confidence score and AI-generated explanation.
• ✦Reduced review time by ~70%, helping users identify sophisticated scams significantly faster.
• ✦Awarded $1,000 at the DSU Hackathon as the sole team to design a Chrome extension (Manifest V3) rather than a traditional web page.