Fake Medicare medical equipment scam — free back brace/CPAP/knee brace/diabetic supplies for Medicare beneficiaries + provide Medicare ID/SSN/DOB to verify eligibility
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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
Fake Medicare durable medical equipment (DME) scam — cold-email impersonating Medicare or a "Medicare-approved supplier" offering free back braces, CPAP machines, knee braces, glucose monitors, diabetic supplies, or wheelchairs to Medicare beneficiaries. The victim is asked to provide their Medicare beneficiary number, Medicare ID, Social Security number (SSN), or date of birth (DOB) to "verify eligibility," enabling identity theft and fraudulent Medicare billing. Real Medicare does not cold-contact beneficiaries offering free equipment; equipment is only provided on physician referral. OIG estimates Medicare DME fraud costs $1–2 billion annually. HHS-OIG 2024: unsolicited medical equipment offers collecting Medicare numbers are the #1 reported Medicare fraud vector among seniors.
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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