Using AI to prevent spam messages
How we built a service in 6 hours to detect spam messages via email
So, I woke up and had this idea. I got this email from a friend of mine with an attachment that demanded payment for 10k impersonating a supplier of hers. What if we used ChatGPT to find out of the email was legit?
I pasted the email and the attachment to ChatGPT and as suspected it knew the message was a scam. I then had this idea…
What if I built a service using AI as the backend to allow people to quickly check if a email is scam or spam?
That's how isthisspam was born.
It is a simple service that allows you to email your suspicious emails and attachments to an email address, check@isthisspam.org and get results within a minute.
The tech stack:
I know I'm doing some self serving advertising here but I'm sure I can share something of value:
The domain name is acquired through CloudFlare, who I love and recommend very much.
The website is built using brizy.cloud and hosted in CloudFlare pages.
The email is hosted in Microsoft stack.
The backend is built using Azure Logic App, which checks for emails in the mailbox and processes the attachments and sends them to Gemini or OpenAI for processing and gets results back in HTML and formats them and sends it back to the user. The whole process takes <1 minute.
The whole process is mapped using excalidraw AI as shown below.
Hope this was interesting, hope you check out my baby since the day before ;)
With Love,
Puskar Kandel