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Advance-fee prize release demand

advance-fee-prize-release-demand

What this tier means

High-confidence threat indicator — phishing, impersonation, BEC, or scam pattern. Strong contributor to the trash decision.

How Gorganizer detects this

Victim is told their lottery winnings, sweepstakes prize, or award funds are "held" or "pending" and can only be released after paying a tax, customs, clearance, or processing fee — the prize-release phase of advance-fee fraud, distinct from the initial lottery win claim; FBI IC3 advance-fee fraud causes over $70M in annual losses; no legitimate sweepstakes or lottery ever requires winners to pay fees before receiving their prize.

False-positive guard

Every signal in Gorganizer feeds a multi-module score — never a sole verdict. This is a threat-tier signal — it adds a strong contribution to the trash score. The full pipeline still requires convergence across multiple modules + a margin over the safety floor before deletion happens, and Gmail's trash (30-day recovery) is always used — never permanent delete.

About the scoring engine

Gorganizer's scoring engine emits over 1,800 signals across six modules — headers, sender, subject, body, attachments, and structural metadata. Every email is scored by every module independently; the final verdict requires multiple modules to agree and the trash score to beat the safety floor by a margin.

Sacred safety guards — never delete starred emails, replies, calendar invites, receipts/invoices, or attachments — apply unconditionally regardless of any signal.

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