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ThreatPhishing & impersonation

Fake subscription service (Norton/McAfee/Amazon Prime) claiming a large auto-renewal charge occurred and asking recipient to call/click to cancel — refund advance-fee fraud; real subscription cancellations never require toll-free calls from unsolicited emails.

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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 subscription service (Norton, McAfee, Amazon Prime) claiming a large auto-renewal charge has been processed and asking recipient to call a toll-free number or click a link to "cancel" and receive a refund — refund advance-fee fraud and subscription slamming. Real subscription services do not cold-email urgent cancellation prompts with phone numbers; these emails aim to get the target to call a fraudulent support center where they are manipulated into providing credentials or banking access. Detection: subscription auto-renewal charge + click/call to cancel/receive refund vocabulary + no List-Unsubscribe + no In-Reply-To + not protected sender. Trash score: +3. Source: GC1-R22; FTC subscription scam advisory 2025; FBI IC3 refund scam patterns.

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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