Fake inheritance / unclaimed funds advance-fee fraud (419)
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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 presenting a classic 419 / advance-fee fraud scenario: a self-described lawyer, banker, government official, or widow claims access to millions in unclaimed, deceased, or frozen funds, offers the recipient a percentage share (typically 30–40%), and requires an upfront fee or personal banking details to "initiate the transfer." Nigerian-prince / 419 fraud is one of the longest-running email scam categories (30+ years). FBI IC3 2024: advance fee fraud caused $55M in reported losses; actual losses are far higher as victims are often too embarrassed to report. Average victim loss exceeds $15,000.
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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