{"id":48559,"date":"2025-09-27T14:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/texas-teen-uses-computer-science-to-fight-scammers\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T14:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:25:04","slug":"texas-teen-uses-computer-science-to-fight-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/texas-teen-uses-computer-science-to-fight-scammers\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas teen uses computer science to fight scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Plano, Texas<\/em> \u2014 In many ways, Tejasvi Manoj of Plano, Texas, is an average 17-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve got to balance, like, all of your classes, and then you have college applications as well,&#8221; Manoj told CBS News.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But she&#8217;s spending much of her senior year of high school with a different type of senior, visiting older adult community centers, where she teaches them how to <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/what-being-targeted-by-grandparent-scam-sounds-like-60-minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">avoid being financially scammed<\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>Her calling started last year when Manoj&#8217;s grandfather was the target of a scam effort in which he received a text message from someone pretending to be a family member, claiming an emergency and asking him to wire $2,000 to a bank account. <\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Manoj&#8217;s grandfather and grandmother contacted family members and discovered the scam before wiring the money. <\/p>\n<p>But the event was alarming to Manoj, who began researching and subsequently building a website and app called Shield Seniors, which shows what online scams look like and how to report them.<\/p>\n<p>In July, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v3800D3xHQo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">did a TEDx talk<\/a>. 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