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ThreatScams & fraud

Fake sweepstakes / lottery prize 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 won a lottery, sweepstakes, raffle, or lucky draw — directing them to pay a "processing," "release," or "administrative" fee or provide personal details to claim the prize. No legitimate lottery requires advance fees. FTC 2024: prize/lottery scams caused $168M in reported losses; nearly 100% of cases involve an advance-fee demand.

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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