Turning the Tables on Email Scammers With 'ScamBuster'

ScamBuster is an open-source, LLM-backed email engagement system that automatically responds to suspected phishing and fraud messages using generated victim personas to delay scammers and collect intelligence (email infrastructure, phone numbers, payment accounts, and scam scripts). The report covers how the system classifies threats, generates personas, conducts multi-turn engagements, exports structured intelligence for law enforcement, and discusses limitations such as attacker detection, legal ambiguity, compute costs, and false-positive risks.