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ThreatPhishing & impersonation

Fake auto / vehicle loan balloon payment due-date lure — "Your vehicle loan balloon payment of $X,XXX is due on [date] — pay now or your vehicle will be repossessed / reported to credit bureaus." Real balloon payment notices come from the lender's official domain established at loan origination, with proper account identification. Cold inbound email + balloon payment + repossession threat + off-brand payment link is a strong phishing indicator. Detection: balloon payment + auto/vehicle loan language + repossession/due urgency + no In-Reply-To + no List-Unsubscribe. Source: GC1 R16; CFPB auto loan fraud advisory 2025.

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What this tier means

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

How Gorganizer detects this

Fake auto / vehicle loan balloon payment due-date lure impersonating a lender or captive finance company. Balloon payment auto loans have a large lump-sum due at term end — a stressful event making borrowers susceptible to urgency lures. Attackers claim "balloon payment due now — pay or face repossession and credit bureau reporting." Real balloon payment notices come from the originating lender's official domain with proper account identification, never cold inbound email from an unknown domain. Signal fires when: (1) balloon payment AND (2) auto/vehicle/car loan AND (3) repossession / overdue / credit report urgency AND (4) no In-Reply-To AND (5) no List-Unsubscribe. Source: GC1 R16; CFPB auto lending fraud advisory 2025.

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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