2026-09-28 21:57 UTC
Phishing / spam detection with local LLMs?
I’ve tried giving screenshots of phishing emails to a local Qwen instance and so far it always correctly detected it as scam, even points out the exact elements that it based its judgement on. Sending screenshots to it ad-hoc isn’t too scalable for family and friends. I’d like to be able to either forward emails for screening, or perhaps have it screen everything from a mailbox.
Has anyone done anything like this? Is there anything self-hostable that does this?
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@cybervseas@lemmy.world 2026-09-28 22:44
Probably better to ask this in an ai community. However fwiw there are a few skills for generic imap checking. I’ve set up a local openclaw gateway and model with an automated task to check my email in the morning and basically prod me into replying. The same concept should be applicable to spam detection too.
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@TheMightyCat@ani.social 2026-09-29 06:02
I would recommend using a classifier model instead of a text generation one. As for the way to do it a simple program that connects to you mailbox via imap and calls the vllm or whatever api you are using and then moves it to spam could work?