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ThreatPhishing & impersonation

Fake FedEx / UPS / USPS delivery fee / customs hold phish

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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 major parcel carrier (FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL) with a fabricated undelivered-package, customs-hold, or outstanding-postage notice — demanding the recipient pay a small fee ($1–$5) to release the parcel. The payment page harvests credit card details; there is no real package. FBI IC3 2024: package delivery scams generated $86M+ in reported consumer losses; the low-fee model converts at unusually high rates because the amount seems trivial relative to the hassle of an undelivered parcel.

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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