Fake Deel contractor payment hold / KYC phishing — impersonates Deel with a payment-held or KYC-re-verification narrative harvesting contractor banking credentials + identity documents. Abnormal Security 2025-2026.
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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 impersonating Deel.com claiming a contractor payment has been held, frozen, or withheld pending KYC re-verification or compliance review, directing victims to a fake portal harvesting banking credentials and identity documents. Three-part detection: (1) Deel account / payment / contractor / compliance / KYC language, (2) payment-held / payout-frozen / KYC-required urgency, (3) submit-documents / complete-KYC / verify-identity CTA with off-deel.com link. Abnormal Security 2025-2026 documented Deel impersonation targeting freelancers and contractors; active campaigns confirmed. Deel processes payments for 35K+ companies across 150+ countries — payment-hold urgency is highly effective against contractors awaiting income.
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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