are AI scam detectors for email actually useful or do you still need something broader
so i've been getting hit with a pretty ridiculous volume of phishing and scam emails lately and i started looking into whether dedicated ai scam detection tools are worth using or if they just duplicate what a good security suite already does.
i've seen a few standalone tools that claim to analyze emails in real time and flag suspicious links or spoofed senders using ai but i honestly can't tell if that's meaningfully better than what a broader security tool with email protection built in would catch anyway.
my concern with the standalone approach is that scams don't just come through email anymore. i get dodgy links through texts, social media, even calendar invites. so i'm wondering if something that only covers email is too narrow to actually be useful in practice.
has anyone used an ai scam detector specifically for email and found it caught things that their existing security setup missed? or did you find that a more complete security tool handled it just as well without needing a separate app for email alone.