Scammers first need to cast a lure before they can catch a fish. This happens through a variety of methods, such as tweets, comment spam, discord messages, and email. We all receive email messages every day claiming to be your exchange letting you know your account is locked; or emails that advertise the next hot NFT drop.
Emails are the first opportunity to detect a scam. For this bounty, create a Forta Detection Bot that monitors a special email inbox on a periodic basis (configurable), crawls links embedded within the emails (using a library provided) received since the last check. The library will connect to the page and report behavior observed. Based on this information, the bot should emit an appropriate alert/label including the information about the URLs, behavior observed, addresses involved, etc.
If a scam has been observed, the bot should submit the URL to urlscan.io to collect HTML evidence/screenshot. A link to the urlscan report should be included in the alert.
In return for developing a functional Forta detection bot that alerts on the above instance, the Forta Foundation is offering $1000 in FORT, the native utility token of the Forta Network. The Forta Foundation team will review the final results and assign the rewards accordingly. The Forta Foundation will cover initial Bot deployment costs (including staking).
In order to ensure that all the work funded by the Forta Foundation under the Threat Research Initiative is made available for the benefit of Forta users, ownership over any bot that receives rewards will be assigned to the Foundation, which will be made available to the public under the "Forta Bot License”. Participants should also commit to making suggested improvements during the first 2 months after deployment.
You are a data scientist who is familiar with or experienced in bot development in the Forta Network. You can communicate effectively with the team, provide updates, and support precision and recall testing of the bot.
*Forta is a real-time detection network for security & operational monitoring of blockchain activity secured by FORT token. Billions of dollars in Web3 monitored by Forta. Underlying Forta is a decentralized network of independent node operators that scan all transactions and block-by-block state changes for outlier transactions and threats. When an issue is detected, node operators send alerts to subscribers of potential risks, which enables them to take action.*
*Forta Detection Bots are a set of code scripts within a Docker container that process some blockchain data (i.e. a block or transaction) and detect specific threat conditions (e.g. whether a flash loan attack occurred, or whether a particular account balance fell below some threshold). Bots emit alerts for their findings. Bots are executed by scan nodes.*