Fake Google Business Profile verification lure — "verify your GBP / GMB listing within 24 hours or it will be removed from Maps / Search" targeting SMB owners; Google-account credential harvest leads to phone-number redirect, review hijack, customer-PII exfil from Q&A inbox
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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 "verify your Google Business Profile within 24 hours or your listing will be removed from Google Maps / Search" email targeting small-business owners (restaurants, salons, dentists, plumbers, auto repair). Harvests the Google account credentials of the GBP manager. Once compromised, attackers redirect the business phone number to a scam line, rewrite hours, hijack the review stream (delete negatives, flood competitors), and exfil customer PII from the Q&A + messaging inboxes. Google Business Profile is the #1 discovery surface for local-services businesses, so owners react fast to "listing at risk" threats — losing Maps ranking means losing revenue. BleepingComputer and Krebs documented sustained 2024-2025 campaigns; 2026 variants scaled with the new verification UX rollout. Fires when the body references Google Business Profile / GMB / GBP / business listing AND contains verification / suspension / removal urgency. Excludes google.com, business.google.com, mybusiness.google.com, support.google.com, googleapis.com umbrellas. Auto-classified as danger via the `-lure` suffix.
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.
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