Fake state unemployment agency (EDD/DOL) claiming benefits require identity verification or an overpayment must be repaid via email link — credential harvest + payment fraud targeting benefit claimants.
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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 state unemployment insurance agency (EDD, DOL, IDES, TWC) or PUA/FPUC program claiming a benefit payment requires identity verification or that an overpayment must be repaid via email link — credential harvest and payment fraud targeting laid-off workers. Real UI benefit payments and overpayment notices come through the state portal and US mail; cold email links "verifying identity" for benefit disbursement are data theft attacks. Detection: unemployment insurance/EDD/UI benefit + identity verification/repay overpayment/bank account vocabulary + no List-Unsubscribe + no In-Reply-To + not protected sender. Trash score: +4. Source: GC1-R22; DOL UI fraud advisory 2025; CISA unemployment benefit phishing alert.
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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