[richardvanorton]

Hi HN, My wife & I have built a free, open-source tool to lock scammers out of their domains.

Github: https://github.com/richardvanorton/scammerlocker Website: https://scammerlocker.vercel.app

Here's how it works:- The tool does a WHOIS lookup to get the domain registrar's abuse contact email. Then it uses Groq's mixtral-8x7b model to use the context and target URL provided by the user to generate an abuse report email with a matching subject. Using Mailgun, it emails the domain provider at their designated abuse contact.

The tool works for any illegal websites, including but not limited to investment scams, crypto pump, and dump, phishing pages, animal abuse, etc. All domain registrars, hosting providers, and TLDs are legally required to take action when they receive an abuse report. Typically, it takes several days to a few weeks to take the website down.

We were learning Next.js 14 and figured the best way to learn something, is to build projects with it and here we are!

[richardvanorton]

I just switched the Groq model to llama3-70b-8192 on the website for better performance!

[pavel_lishin]

What does it do if someone points it at a legitimate site?

[richardvanorton]

Fake abuse reports will be ignored when the registrar investigates anyway. But for the demo, I added hCaptcha to the form so that malicious actors won't be able to spam the form with abuse reports to a) damage the demo domain's MX reputation or b) overload a domain registrar's inbox.