Business Email Compromise (BEC) / CEO fraud — executive impersonation requesting urgent wire transfer or gift cards
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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 impersonating a CEO, CFO, VP, or other executive requesting an urgent, confidential wire transfer or gift card purchase — the defining pattern of Business Email Compromise (BEC). Classic indicators include a spoofed executive identity claim, instructions to bypass normal approval processes, and demands for secrecy ("do not contact accounting," "do not CC anyone"). BEC is the #1 source of financial cybercrime losses globally. FBI IC3 2024: BEC scams caused $2.9B in reported losses in the US alone; average successful attack cost $125,000. Attackers often use lookalike domains (company-payments.net, executive-portal.info) to impersonate corporate leadership.
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 2,143+ 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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