Fake crypto cloud mining / DeFi staking yield scam — fraudulent email promotes cloud mining contracts, hash-rate rentals, DeFi staking pools, or liquidity farming with implausibly high guaranteed returns (e.g. "2% daily", "180% APY", "15% weekly"); victims deposit Bitcoin, USDT, or Ethereum into Ponzi or exit-scam operations
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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
Fraudulent emails promoting cloud mining contracts, DeFi staking pools, liquidity yield farming, or hash-rate rental schemes with implausibly high guaranteed returns — "2% daily", "180% APY", "15% weekly". These operations have no real mining hardware or smart-contract yield mechanism; they are Ponzi schemes (early depositors paid from later depositors' funds) or exit scams (operator disappears with deposits). Key facts: (1) The SEC and FTC have brought dozens of enforcement actions against such schemes — BitConnect, OneCoin, Hashflare, MiningMax — collectively costing victims over $5 billion; (2) Real Proof-of-Stake validators on Ethereum currently earn ~3–4% APY, fluctuating with total ETH staked — never guaranteed; (3) Legitimate cloud mining operations (NiceHash, F2Pool) display real hash-rate metrics and do not promise fixed daily returns; (4) Guaranteed fixed returns on crypto are the defining hallmark of Ponzi fraud — any email promising them should be treated as a scam regardless of branding. Warning signs: "guaranteed" returns, daily/weekly payout promises, minimum deposit requirement, no technical documentation, urgency to "join" before offer expires.
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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