Fake SSA notice claiming Social Security benefits are being reviewed or suspended and requiring SSN or bank account verification to continue receiving payments — credential-harvest and bank-drain fraud; real SSA benefit changes are communicated through ssa.gov or postal mail, never cold email credential requests.
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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 SSA (Social Security Administration) notice claiming the recipient's Social Security benefits are being reviewed or have been suspended, requiring SSN or bank account verification via email link to continue receiving payments — credential-harvest and bank-drain fraud targeting Social Security recipients. Real SSA benefit reviews are managed through the authenticated my Social Security portal (ssa.gov) or announced via postal mail; the SSA never initiates benefit suspensions or verifications through cold inbound email links requesting SSN or banking credentials. Detection: SSA/social security benefits under review/suspended + verify SSN/bank account to continue receiving benefit payments vocabulary + no List-Unsubscribe + no In-Reply-To + not protected sender. Trash score: +4. Source: GC1-R25; SSA Office of Inspector General benefit fraud advisory; FTC SSA impostor 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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