Fake utility shutoff threat scam — electricity/gas/water service disconnection today + pay via prepaid card / Green Dot / MoneyGram within hours to avoid cutoff
fake-utility-shutoff-threat-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 an electric, gas, or water utility company threatening same-day or imminent service disconnection unless the recipient immediately calls a payment hotline and provides a prepaid card number (Green Dot, Vanilla, Walmart MoneyCard, eBay gift card) or MoneyGram payment to "prevent service interruption." Real utility companies never require prepaid gift cards as payment, never give 2-hour ultimatums via cold email, and never dispatch technicians based on email contact. FTC/AARP 2024: utility impersonation scams are the #1 senior-targeted phone/email scam with $186M in reported losses; spikes sharply in winter (heating season) and summer (cooling season) when service disruption fear is highest. Classic pressure tactic: "a technician has been dispatched to your address" — implying immediate irreversibility.
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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