Fake advance fee / inheritance scam (419 fraud) — deceased stranger left millions + pay attorney/transfer/demurrage fees to claim
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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
Email from a fake barrister, bank manager, or financial advisor claiming a deceased stranger left millions in an unclaimed estate, dormant account, or security trunk — and offering the recipient a percentage for helping transfer the funds. The catch: they must first pay escalating "fees" (attorney fees, transfer tax, demurrage, clearance certificates) that continue until the victim stops paying. Classic 419 / Nigerian prince advance-fee fraud, now also presented as oil contract overpayments and surplus government funds. Interpol/FBI: advance fee fraud causes $700M+ in annual global losses; once victims pay one fee, they are pressured to pay more with the promise that the payout is imminent.
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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