Fake executive (CEO/CFO) impersonation requesting urgent wire transfer before close of business with explicit instruction not to reply to the email but call directly — one of the highest-loss BEC fraud patterns tracked by FBI IC3; real wire-transfer requests go through authenticated banking portals and dual-approval controls, never cold email with "don't reply, call me" directives.
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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 executive impersonation (CEO/CFO Business Email Compromise) requesting an urgent wire transfer before close of business today, with an explicit instruction not to reply to the email but to call the sender directly — one of the highest-loss fraud vectors tracked by the FBI IC3 (BEC losses exceeded $2.9B in 2023). Real wire-transfer requests from executives go through authenticated banking portals, established vendor-payment workflows, and dual-approval controls; cold emails impersonating executives with "urgent wire before COB — don't reply to this email, call me directly" are a textbook BEC pattern. The combination of urgency (COB deadline), wire transfer demand, and "don't use email, call me" channel-switch instruction is the defining triple-signal for this attack class. Distinct from gift-card-ceo-fraud-phish (gift-card purchase narrative) and brokerage-t-plus-1-settlement-failure-margin-call-lure (brokerage settlement) — this targets the executive impersonation / urgent wire transfer / close-of-business deadline pretext. Detection: urgent wire transfer + before close of business/COB + don't reply/call me directly vocabulary + no List-Unsubscribe + no In-Reply-To + not protected sender. Trash score: +5. Source: GC1-R27; FBI IC3 BEC/EAC Advisory 2024; FinCEN BEC financial institution advisory; CISA BEC 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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