Fake DMV or state motor vehicle authority claiming the target's vehicle registration is delinquent and threatening license plate confiscation and fine escalation unless a registration fee is paid immediately via email link — credential-harvest and advance-fee attack; real DMV delinquency notices arrive by USPS, never cold email payment links.
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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 DMV or state motor vehicle authority claiming the target's vehicle registration is delinquent or lapsed and threatening license plate confiscation and fine escalation unless a registration fee is paid immediately via email link — credential-harvest and advance-fee attack targeting vehicle owners. Real vehicle registration delinquency notices are delivered via USPS from the official state DMV and verifiable through the DMV's own portal; cold emails threatening same-day license plate confiscation for unpaid registration are government-impersonation attacks. The registration delinquency / license plate confiscation / fine escalation pretext is tracked by FTC and state attorneys general as a recurring motor-vehicle-owner scam. Distinct from drivers-license-suspension-phish (license suspension pretext) and toll-violations-final-collection-phish (toll authority pretext) — this targets the DMV vehicle registration delinquent / plate confiscated / fee escalation vocabulary. Detection: vehicle registration delinquent/lapsed + license plate confiscated + pay fee immediately + no List-Unsubscribe + no In-Reply-To + not protected sender. Trash score: +4. Source: GC1-R30; FTC vehicle registration scam advisory 2025; NTSA government-impersonation patterns; CISA DMV 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 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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