Fake inheritance / estate attorney advance-fee scam — you are next of kin to a deceased stranger with millions + provide bank account details + pay legal/transfer/tax fee to release funds
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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
Nigerian 419 / advance-fee fraud — one of the oldest online scams, named after Section 419 of the Nigerian Criminal Code. A "barrister," "bank official," or "UN compensation officer" contacts the victim by email claiming they are the rightful heir to millions held in a deceased stranger's dormant account, or that they've won a lottery or UN compensation award. To release the funds, the victim must pay escalating "legal fees," "transfer taxes," "documentation fees," or "tax clearance certificates" ($200–$1,751+ per payment). The money is never released — each fee payment reveals a new requirement. The scam often includes requests for the victim's bank account details and ID. The "next of kin" claim is designed to feel both plausible and flattering. FBI IC3 2024: advance-fee fraud caused $107M in losses in the US alone.
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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