Fake gift card prize redemption scam — you won a $500 Amazon/Walmart/Visa gift card + pay small shipping/processing fee + OR boss impersonation: buy gift cards urgently + send redemption codes + reimburse later
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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
Two converging scam variants both targeting gift cards: (1) Prize/winner gift card scam — "Congratulations! You've won a $500 Amazon/Walmart/Visa gift card — pay $4.99 shipping and handling to claim your prize." Victims enter credit card details to pay the "fee" and receive neither the gift card nor a refund — the real goal is harvesting card credentials. (2) CEO/boss impersonation gift card scam — an email impersonating a senior executive or the victim's boss claims to be in an urgent meeting and requests the victim immediately purchase Google Play, iTunes, or Amazon gift cards from a local store, scratch the codes, and email them. The scammer claims to urgently need the cards for a business deal and promises to reimburse. FTC 2024: gift card scams are the #1 payment method requested by all fraud types combined, totalling $217 million in losses. The IRS, FTC, Social Security Administration, and utility companies all explicitly state they never request gift card payment.
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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