Fake lottery / sweepstakes prize claim (advance fee)
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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 claiming the recipient has won a lottery, sweepstakes, or prize draw — but requiring an upfront "processing fee," "tax clearance fee," or "release fee" before the prize can be delivered. Legitimate lotteries and competitions never require advance payments; the fee demand is the defining fraud marker. Often impersonates Publisher's Clearing House, UK National Lottery, or fabricated "International Lottery" brands. FTC 2024: prize and lottery scams cost US consumers $301M, with advance fee demands present in >90% of reported cases.
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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