Fake NHTSA or dealer claiming a safety recall requires a parts deposit payment before scheduling the recall repair — advance-fee fraud; real NHTSA safety recalls are always free to vehicle owners with no consumer deposit required.
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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 NHTSA or automobile dealer claiming a safety recall requires the vehicle owner to pay a deposit for replacement parts before the recall repair can be scheduled — advance-fee fraud targeting vehicle owners. Real NHTSA safety recalls are performed at no cost to the vehicle owner; dealers are reimbursed by the manufacturer and are legally required to perform recall repairs free of charge. Cold emails demanding a parts deposit for a safety recall are advance-fee fraud with no legitimate analogue. Distinct from any auto-credential-harvest signal — this is specifically the parts-deposit advance-fee pretext. Detection: NHTSA/safety recall + deposit/fee required for replacement parts vocabulary + no List-Unsubscribe + no In-Reply-To + not protected sender. Trash score: +4. Source: GC1-R24; NHTSA recall reimbursement regulations (49 CFR Part 573); FTC auto recall scam advisory 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 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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