Fake lottery / sweepstakes winner notification — your email won $X + pay processing fee/taxes to claim prize
fake-lottery-sweepstakes-you-won-scam
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 your email address was randomly selected as the winner of a lottery, sweepstakes, or prize draw — then requiring payment of "processing fees," "release charges," "clearance taxes," or "administrative fees" before the winnings can be transferred. There are no winnings; all fees go to the scammer. Legitimate lotteries never require upfront fees to claim prizes, and you cannot win a lottery you did not enter. FTC 2024: prize, lottery, and sweepstakes scams cost consumers $301M; average victim loses $907; seniors and recent immigrants are disproportionately targeted.
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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