Fake utility shutoff scam — electricity/gas/water disconnection threat + pay immediately with gift cards or call fake number
fake-utility-bill-overdue-cutoff-scam
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 a utility company (electricity, gas, water, internet) with a fabricated shutoff threat unless immediate payment is made — typically via gift cards, prepaid debit cards, or a call to a scammer hotline. Real utility companies never request gift card payment and provide written notice with proper due dates before any shutoff. FTC 2024: utility impersonator scams cost consumers $55M; spikes in cold months when heating shutoff creates urgency. Victims are most often people who are worried about past-due bills and therefore susceptible to urgency-based pressure.
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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