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ThreatScams & fraud

CBDC / digital-dollar wallet onboarding scam — fraudulent email impersonating the Federal Reserve, US Treasury, or FedNow claiming a "digital dollar" wallet is ready to activate, harvesting SSN, bank details, or an activation fee. FBI IC3 2025 report: 4,200+ complaints / $89M; FTC alert Feb 2026.

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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

Emails claiming to offer access to a US "digital dollar," "FedNow digital wallet," "Federal Reserve digital currency account," or government-backed CBDC wallet. Victims are directed to register a "digital wallet" and provide SSN, bank routing number, and/or pay a "wallet activation fee" in cryptocurrency or wire. This vector exploits widespread confusion between FedNow (the real instant-payment rail launched 2023) and a fictional "digital dollar" CBDC. The FBI IC3 2025 Annual Report documents 4,200+ CBDC-related fraud complaints totaling $89M in losses — a 380% increase from 2024. The FTC issued a specific CBDC scam consumer alert in February 2026. No US CBDC exists; any email combining "digital dollar" + "wallet registration" + non-government link is unambiguously fraudulent.

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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