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Social Security / Medicare scam — SSN suspended + urgent call / arrest threat / gift-card payment demand

social-security-benefit-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

Body contains a Social Security Administration, Medicare, or SSN suspension/compromise claim — "Your Social Security number has been suspended", "Your SSN was flagged for criminal activity", or "Your Medicare benefits have been terminated" — AND an illegal pressure tactic the real SSA explicitly states it never uses: an urgent call-back demand ("call immediately to restore your account"), an arrest/warrant threat for failing to respond, a gift card or cryptocurrency payment to "reactivate" benefits, or a request to provide your SSN to "verify identity". The SSA only contacts people by postal mail and never sends emails or calls about benefit suspensions — all such communications are fraudulent. The FTC receives hundreds of thousands of SSA impersonation scam reports each year. If you receive a genuine inquiry from SSA, verify it at ssa.gov or call the official SSA number at 1-800-772-1213.

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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