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ThreatPhishing & impersonation

Fake lender claiming a pre-approved mortgage refinance requires identity or bank account verification via email link to lock in the rate — credential-harvest and bank-drain fraud; real mortgage refinance closings happen through authenticated lender portals, not cold email links.

mortgage-refinance-closing-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 mortgage lender or refinance company claiming a pre-approved mortgage refinance requires identity verification, income confirmation, or bank account details via email link to lock in a rate before it expires — credential-harvest and bank-drain fraud targeting homeowners. Real mortgage refinance origination is handled through authenticated lender portals, title companies, and closing attorneys; cold emails demanding identity and banking credentials to lock a refinance rate are not a legitimate lender workflow. Distinct from realestate-closing-wire-fraud (wire-transfer redirection during active closing) — this targets the refinance origination and rate-lock phase. Detection: mortgage refinance pre-approved/rate lock expiring + verify identity/provide bank/submit income vocabulary + no List-Unsubscribe + no In-Reply-To + not protected sender. Trash score: +4. Source: GC1-R24; CFPB mortgage refinance fraud advisory; FTC mortgage relief scam report 2025.

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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