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Fake jury duty arrest warrant scam — missed jury summons + arrest/bench warrant issued + pay fine via gift cards / prepaid card to clear warrant

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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 impersonating a court clerk, county court, or federal court claiming the recipient missed jury duty and has an active arrest warrant, bench warrant, or US Marshal warrant — then demanding immediate payment of a fine ($800–$1,500+) via prepaid debit card, gift card, Green Dot card, Western Union, or money order to "clear" the warrant and avoid arrest by a sheriff or federal agent. Real courts issue jury duty notices by certified mail, never by unsolicited email, and never demand gift card payment to clear a warrant. FTC/FBI 2024: government impersonation scams using fake arrest warrants are a top senior fraud category; the combination of authority (court/law enforcement) + urgency (arrest imminent) + untraceable payment method is the classic social engineering triad. If you receive a real jury summons, it will never contain a payment link.

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 over 1,800 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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