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Abstract
Keywords:
I. Introduction
II. Literature Review
III. Problem Statement
A. Objectives
B. Idea
C. Problems Faced
IV. Proposal System
A. Architecture Diagram
B. System Flow

V. Application Overview
A. Key features
B. Technology stack
VI. Result and Discussion
VII. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
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| Method | Email(%) | SMS(%) | Social Media Spam (%) |
| CANTINA+ | 88.5 | 82.3 | 85.0 |
| Feature-Based Approach | 86.2 | 80.1 | 83.7 |
| PhishGuard(proposed) | 97.5 | 94.8 | 96.2 |
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