Fake dark-web credential monitoring phishing — claims the victim's passwords were found on the dark web or RaidForums, creates urgency to "upgrade" or "remove" data, and harvests credentials or payment info at a non-legitimate monitoring-service domain. ITRC 2026; Proofpoint identity-theft-lure campaign 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
Phishing emails claiming the victim's passwords were found on the dark web or breach forums, creating urgency to "upgrade" a protection service or "remove" leaked data via a non-legitimate monitoring service, harvesting credentials or payment info. Three-part detection: (1) dark web / darkweb / breach forum / passwords-for-sale language, (2) upgrade-to-protect / free-trial-expiring / premium-plan upsell, (3) sender NOT on known legitimate monitoring domain (Aura, DeleteMe, Incogni, NordVPN, Experian), no In-Reply-To. ITRC 2026; Proofpoint identity-theft-lure campaign 2026.
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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