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Link anchor text mixes Latin with Cyrillic/Greek (homograph)

href-anchor-mixed-script

What this tier means

High-confidence threat indicator — phishing, impersonation, BEC, or scam pattern. Strong contributor to the trash decision.

How Gorganizer detects this

An `<a>` anchor text contains BOTH an ASCII Latin letter AND a Cyrillic or Greek letter — e.g. `<a href="https://attacker.example">PayPаl.com/login</a>` where the `а` is Cyrillic U+0430. The user sees a familiar-looking link label and clicks. The iter 223 text-domain-mismatch check silently misses because its URL-extraction regex rejects non-Latin letters in the text host — same bypass class as the anchor-invisible-chars signal. Completes the mixed-script homograph family across all five surfaces (domain, subject, attachment, display-name, anchor). Pure-Cyrillic anchor text on a Russian-language newsletter does NOT fire because no ASCII letters are mixed in. Weighted at +4.

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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