Fake inheritance / unclaimed estate scam — barrister/lawyer contacts you about deceased relative's millions + you are next of kin + provide bank details to transfer
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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 from a self-described lawyer, barrister, solicitor, banker, or estate administrator claiming that a deceased person with the same surname as the recipient left a large unclaimed estate (typically $4M–$15M) and that the recipient has been identified as the "next of kin" or "sole beneficiary." To proceed, the victim must provide bank account details, pay "handling charges," "transfer fees," or "legal fees," and keep the matter confidential. Also known as advance-fee fraud, 419 fraud, or Nigerian prince scam in its estate variant. FBI IC3 2024: advance fee fraud caused $134M in reported losses; real probate processes are initiated by official court notices, never unsolicited personal emails. The scam preys on financial vulnerability and the allure of sudden wealth.
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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