Fake AI API runaway-spend / overage alert (OpenAI/Anthropic/Claude API) to harvest API keys or cloud credentials from non-official sender
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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 AI API runaway-spend or overage alert targeting developers with unauthorized charges to harvest API keys or cloud credentials. As agentic AI workflows become mainstream, runaway agent costs ($500-$5,000+ overages from misconfigured loops) are a real and well-documented pain point. Attackers exploit this fear by sending fake "Your OpenAI API account has incurred $2,847 in unexpected charges from runaway agent usage — rotate your API key immediately to stop further billing" or "Claude API overage: $1,200 detected — log in now" emails. Victims who click are taken to a phishing page that harvests their API key, OpenAI/Anthropic account credentials, or cloud billing credentials. A stolen API key enables continued billing fraud and model abuse. The signal fires when: (1) body references an AI API provider (OpenAI, Anthropic/Claude, Gemini, etc.) AND (2) runaway-spend, overage, unexpected charges, or API key rotation urgency is present AND (3) sender is NOT an official provider domain AND (4) no List-Unsubscribe or In-Reply-To. Source: GC1 R14 council #7; FBI advisory on AI API credential theft Q1 2026.
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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