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Abstract
Phone scams remain a pervasive threat to both personal safety and financial
security worldwide. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have
demonstrated strong potential in detecting fraudulent behavior by analyzing
transcribed phone conversations. However, these capabilities introduce notable
privacy risks, as such conversations frequently contain sensitive personal
information that may be exposed to third-party service providers during
processing. In this work, we explore how to harness LLMs for phone scam
detection while preserving user privacy. We propose MASK (Modular Adaptive
Sanitization Kit), a trainable and extensible framework that enables dynamic
privacy adjustment based on individual preferences. MASK provides a pluggable
architecture that accommodates diverse sanitization methods - from traditional
keyword-based techniques for high-privacy users to sophisticated neural
approaches for those prioritizing accuracy. We also discuss potential modeling
approaches and loss function designs for future development, enabling the
creation of truly personalized, privacy-aware LLM-based detection systems that
balance user trust and detection effectiveness, even beyond phone scam context.