Fake eBay second chance buyer scam — you were the highest/second bidder + winner backed out + pay directly to seller outside of eBay/platform via wire/gift card/money order
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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
Fake eBay or online marketplace "second chance" buyer scam — scammers contact auction bidders claiming the winning buyer backed out, the item was returned, or the victim was the second-highest bidder, then request payment OUTSIDE the auction platform via wire transfer, gift cards, Bitcoin, Western Union, Venmo, or Zelle. The item does not exist or the seller is fraudulent; payment outside the platform eliminates buyer protection. eBay, Craigslist, and Facebook Marketplace all state explicitly that legitimate sellers never ask buyers to pay outside the platform or via untraceable methods. FBI IC3 2024: online marketplace payment fraud (including second-chance scams) caused $392M in reported losses. The defining red flag is the instruction to bypass the platform's payment system.
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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