Four Korean students attending Fairfax High School in Virginia have developed an online fraud prevention website and received first place and a cash prize from the county. Fairfax County recently announced the winners of the 2024 Student Shark Tank Technology Competition, and the online fraud prevention website ‘Scam cops’ (scamcops.com) developed by four Fairfax High School students, including David Nam and Nathan Kim, won first place.
Scam cops, developed by the four students, is known to be very useful as it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to provide real-time online fraud warnings to seniors, people with disabilities, caregivers, and even the public who are easily deceived by online fraud.
This year’s competition, now in its 8th year, is a large-scale competition in which all middle and high school students in the county participate, hosted by the Fairfax Department of Family Services, the Department of Neighborhood and Community Services, and the Fairfax 50+ Technology Committee.