For 17-year-old Shilo Karakkattu, scam calls weren’t an abstract threat — they were weekly disruptions in his grandparents’ Eastmark home.
After watching them navigate everything from fake Medicare calls to fraudsters posing as government agencies, the BASIS Mesa junior built ScamSafe, an AI‑powered website that helps seniors detect scams.
“They’ll get a call that sounds so convincing,” Karakkattu said. “They’re so urgent to call me and say, ‘How do we send these people money?’…