Fake government agency (FTC, IRS, court, DMV) imposing a civil fine payable via email link — real government fines arrive by certified mail and are paid through official .gov portals.
government-fine-penalty-payment-phish
What this tier means
High-confidence threat indicator — phishing, impersonation, BEC, or scam pattern. Strong contributor to the trash decision.
How Gorganizer detects this
Fake government agency (FTC, IRS, court, DMV, city/county) imposing a civil fine or penalty payable via email link — impersonation fraud with arrest/legal-action threat. Real government fines arrive by certified mail with official case numbers; payment is through authenticated .gov portals. The "pay or face arrest/warrant/seizure" threat pattern is the defining feature. Detection: government/federal/court/civil fine + penalty payment + arrest/warrant/seizure/legal action threat + immediate payment demand + no List-Unsubscribe + no In-Reply-To + not protected sender. Trash score: +4. Source: GC1-R21; FTC government impostor advisory 2025; FBI IC3 government impersonation scam alert.
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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