Fake traffic violation or DMV fine notice with QR code or payment link
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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 traffic violation / DMV fine notice with QR code or payment link — a high-volume smishing-to-email campaign documented by FBI IC3 2024 and CISA 2025. The phish narrative arrives as an urgent government-impersonating notice: "You have an unpaid traffic citation. Pay within 72 hours at the link below to avoid license suspension," or "Your vehicle was cited for a moving violation. Scan the QR code to pay the fine before your court appearance." Real DMV and toll-authority notices originate from .gov domains and are sent as physical mail or to an email address the driver registered — unsolicited email fine notices with urgent QR codes are not a legitimate government notification pattern. The signal fires when: (1) body references a traffic violation / citation / DMV / toll authority AND (2) a pay-now / scan-QR / payment CTA is present AND (3) urgency framing (72-hour window, license suspension, court appearance) is present AND (4) sender is NOT from a .gov domain. Source: GC1 R12 council #6; FBI IC3 PSA I-240228; CISA advisory 2025-AA-traffic-toll-smishing; Cofense Q2 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 2,143+ 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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