| US 11,757,816 B1 | ||
| Systems and methods for detecting scam emails | ||
| Tsung-Fu Lin, Taipei (TW); Jyh-Ying Peng, Taipei (TW); Che-Fu Yeh, Taipei (TW); Yen-Shuo Huang, Taipei (TW); and Jeng-Yan Shen, Taipei (TW) | ||
| Assigned to Trend Micro Incorporated, Tokyo (JP) | ||
| Filed by Trend Micro Incorporated, Tokyo (JP) | ||
| Filed on Nov. 11, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/679,567. | ||
| Int. Cl. H04L 51/212 (2022.01); G06Q 10/107 (2023.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01) | ||
| CPC H04L 51/212 (2022.05) [G06Q 10/107 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01); H04L 63/12 (2013.01); H04L 63/1441 (2013.01)] | 3 Claims |
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1. A method of detecting scam emails, the method comprising:
at a user computer:
receiving an email; and
forwarding, by a security application running at the user computer, at least an email body of the email from the user computer to a backend system for evaluation; and
at the backend system:
removing personally identifiable information from the email body to generate an anonymized email body;
classifying the anonymized email body to determine whether or not the email is a scam email;
classifying the anonymized email body as a scam;
identifying a segment of text that is indicative of scam emails in the anonymized email body; and
providing a result to the user computer, wherein the result includes the segment of text.
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