Fake prize drawing / survey completion shipping fee scam
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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 announcing a prize win, survey-completion reward, or loyalty gift card — then requiring the recipient to pay a "small" shipping, processing, or handling fee (typically $2–$10) or enter credit card details to claim the prize. There is no prize; the fee payment harvests card credentials. Exploits sunk-cost psychology ("you already won"). FTC 2024: prize and sweepstakes scams cost consumers $301M; survey reward scams target 30M+ Americans annually via email and SMS.
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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