Fake survey reward / gift card redemption 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 claiming the recipient was selected to complete a survey and will receive a gift card, cash reward, or valuable prize (iPhone, laptop, etc.) — but requires a credit card to cover a small "shipping fee," "handling fee," or "processing fee" to claim the reward. A subscription trap and advance-fee fraud scheme. FTC 2024: prize, sweepstakes, and lottery scams cost US consumers $175 million in reported losses.
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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