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 * SCAMELEON Scam Protection Bot

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IT'S TIME TO INCREASE SECURITY IN YOUR SERVER.

Scameleon is a scam protection and automatically updating network scam list.
Suitable for large communities and game developers.

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Features


EASY TO SET UP

Get all commands with !scam -help and set up your bot.

DETECTION

The bot effectively detects and deletes scam with minimal false positives.

LINKING

Strong together. All scam bans/kicks automatically update the scam database.

WEBINTERFACE

Webinterface for basic statistics and settings.

Description
What's the bot exactly about and how it is working.
SCAMELEON Scam Protection Bot is primarily aimed at larger communities and
developer discords, especially of games that are present on Steam who are
struggling with scambots. The goal is to provide security between different
communities.

As a moderator of an official developer discord of an upcoming PC game, I have
to deal with scammers trying to steal the Steam data of users every day.

Out of this problem I came up with the idea to create a bot that specializes in
exactly this problem.
In the best case, the bot remains completely inactive. But if it has to, it
actively protects your server.

The bot is monitoring the server's auditlog for ban actions. If a user gets
banned with the term "scam" in the reason, the bot comes into effect.
Scam is not case sensitive and can be wrapped in a sentence or another term like
"scammer".
As the bot monitors the audit log, it also works in combination with other
moderation bots such as Dyno.

To avoid abuse, the bot now evaluates the report value based on the server size.
This value is now saved.
If other servers also ban the account because of "scam", their values are added
to the existing value. Thus, no single server can trigger the following step.

If the summed report value exceeds a certain level, the user gets scam listed
and cannot join any other server that uses this bot.
The bot now also scans all servers that use it to check if this account is also
there as a sleeper and executes the defined action (kick/ban/warn).

Another security aspect to avoid abuse is the fact that the banned user must
have been on the server to be counted. Banning users who are not on the server
has no effect.

For the basic functionality the bot does not need any setup. Once you have
invited it to your server, it will work as long as it gets the requested
permissions.

Of course, the bot can be customized a bit. You need managing guild permissions
to change the settings. All changes can be done in the web interface.

For example, you can enable a logging function that is disabled by default.

You can also set how the bot should react to users from the scam list.

Kick - to kick these users directly when they join (default behaviour) - high
security level:



Warn - to enable only a warning in the log channel instead of direct
kicking/banning when they join. - low security level:



Disable - to disable the functionality of the bot (the ban tracking will
continue) - no security:
.
Users from the scam list will get a short explanation from the bot why they were
kicked/banned directly. With the possibility of an appeal to us to be removed
from the scam list.




Auto moderation - The bot can also identify and delete scam messages relatively
reliably. The feature is disabled by default. It does not search for a fixed
scam pattern, but evaluates the messages based on typical word combinations.
Additionally, the included links are also checked according to the usual
formulations and included in the evaluation. This makes the detection very
flexible and reliable.

The bot then deletes identified messages and posts a copy to the logs.
Here the moderators can decide how to deal with the author.
It does not automatically sanction users based on messages, because despite the
actually reliable detection, false positives are not totally excluded.




Logging of Discord integrated mod tools - Discord meanwhile has a lot of
integrated moderation tools like kick/ban/timeout.
But all of them have one huge disadvantage. It is very difficult to track
moderation actions afterwards. Searching in the audit logs is hell.
Also the timeout function is a nice idea, but the user will never get the reason
of the timeout.
If the Discord logging feature is enabled, SCAMELEON will try to log all
moderations executed with the Discord tools.
If you execute a mute, the user will get a DM from the bot including the mute
reason.




Name filtering - You don't want certain names or symbols on your server? And
want to see when a user with such a name joins?
Use your personal SCAMELEON name filter and get informed in the log channel. The
filter does not trigger any moderate actions. It is a simple staff information.
You can add whole names or just unwanted parts. The bot searches both display
name and the actual Discord name for matches.
Of course there can be false positives, but better 20 false positives that you
ignore than one unnoticed, unwanted name.




Word filtering -You don't want to have certain phrases or symbols in messages?
You want to see if they are used without reading every message?
Use your personal SCAMELEON word filter and get informed in the log channel. The
filter does not trigger any moderate actions. It is a simple staff information.
You can add whole words or only unwanted parts. The bot will then check all new
messages for matches..




Transparency is important, so here are some explanations about data processing..

What are the permissions needed for?
Kicking and banning - The bot offers the possibility based on the scam list to
prevent users from entering the server by kick or ban. There is no moderation of
the already active members.
Auditlog access - During a ban action of a moderator, the bot accesses the
server's audit log to check if "scam" is specified in the reason. By retrieving
the data via the auditlog, the bot is also compatible with other moderation
bots. The bot does not process any other information!
See channels, write messages, embed links - This is used to set up the log
channel. Also, the bot responds via embed texts. The bot does not process any
text away from its commands in its default setting. If you enable the automatic
deletion of scam messages, new messages will be scanned for scam indicators.
Here the manage messages permissions are needed.

This data is stored by the bot.
Only the ID of the server and its name are stored to allow individual
configuration of the server.
For "scam" bans, the server ID is also stored with the associated ban reason to
be able to retrace the scam listing in case of an appeal.
In adition, the UserID of the "scammer" is added to the watch- and later scam
list.

When you remove the bot from your server, all data will be deleted except for
the already registered scammer IDs and the information related to the ban.



Big communities using the bot
SCAMELEON statistics (since September 2021)


292

currently protected servers

474615

currently protected users

23882

messages deleted

3746

tracked reports


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