Fake Twitch DMCA copyright-strike lure — email impersonates Twitch Legal / Trust & Safety, claims the recipient's channel received a DMCA copyright strike (often the "3rd strike" / repeat-infringer threshold), threatens channel termination, and provides a counter-notice/appeal link that harvests Twitch credentials. Dexerto Mar 2025: Pirate-Software impersonator false-DMCA; Bitdefender 2025: AI voice/face-clone escalation. Distinct from fake-twitch-partner-affiliate-monetization-phish (monetization) and fake-legal-court-notice-lure (court summons)
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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 impersonating Twitch Legal, Trust & Safety, or the Twitch support team that claims the recipient's channel received a DMCA copyright strike and is now at risk of termination — frequently invoking the "3rd strike" / "repeat infringer" threshold from Twitch's real DMCA policy to create plausible urgency. The email provides an appeal link or counter-notice form on a domain other than twitch.tv that harvests Twitch credentials or redirects to a malicious payload. Dexerto reported in March 2025 that the streamer Pirate Software received a false-DMCA from an impersonator; Bitdefender's 2025 Twitch Scam analysis noted that attackers now use AI-generated voice and face clones to escalate the attack. The lure is especially effective because Twitch creators genuinely receive large volumes of DMCA claims (Engadget reported 1,000+ in a single wave) making the threat feel real. Real Twitch DMCA notices come from @twitch.tv addresses with a case ID number linking to the official Creator Dashboard. Distinct from `fake-twitch-partner-affiliate-monetization-phish` (which targets monetization setup / partner program phishing, not DMCA) and from generic copyright-strike signals targeting other platforms.
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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