Fake charity or nonprofit claiming a donation tax receipt requires SSN or EIN verification via email link for IRS acknowledgment — PII-harvest fraud; real 501(c)(3) donation receipts are simple written acknowledgments that never require the donor to submit SSN or EIN.
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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 charity or nonprofit claiming a donation tax receipt requires SSN or EIN verification via email link to complete IRS acknowledgment or validate tax-deductible status — PII-harvest fraud targeting donors. Real 501(c)(3) donation receipts are written acknowledgments from the charity containing the donation amount, date, and a statement of no goods or services provided; they are self-contained documents and never require the donor to submit SSN, EIN, or other PII via email link to access them. Detection: 501(c)(3)/charity/donation tax receipt + verify SSN/EIN/identity for IRS acknowledgment vocabulary + no List-Unsubscribe + no In-Reply-To + not protected sender. Trash score: +3. Source: GC1-R24; IRS Publication 1771 (charitable contribution substantiation); FTC charity scam 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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