Scamurai-bot is a consumer protection assistant bot that fetches the latest scam alerts from trusted sources (currently FTC and IC3) and summarizes them into clear, concise Mastodon posts to help people stay informed and avoid scams.
- Fetches scam alerts from FTC RSS feeds
- Uses OpenAI GPT to generate short, actionable summaries
- Posts these summaries to Mastodon to raise awareness
- Python 3
- feedparser for parsing RSS feeds
- OpenAI GPT for summarization
- Mastodon.py for posting to Mastodon
- dotenv for environment configuration
Contributions are welcome!
If you have ideas to improve scam detection, formatting, additional data sources, or deployment workflows, please open an issue or submit a pull request.
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
Stay informed. Stay safe. Scamurai-bot.