Fake crypto recovery service scam — recover lost/stolen Bitcoin/crypto wallet/funds + pay upfront fee/retainer/percentage to begin blockchain investigation
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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 cryptocurrency recovery service — targeting people who have already lost money to crypto scams, wallet hacks, or exchange failures. Scammers pose as "blockchain forensics specialists," "crypto investigators," or "digital asset recovery firms" claiming they can trace and recover stolen funds for an upfront "engagement fee," "case filing fee," "retainer," or a percentage (10–20%) of recovered funds. These are advance-fee fraud operations: no recovery occurs, the fee is the entirety of the scam, and victims lose money twice. FTC and FBI both warn that unsolicited recovery services contacting scam victims are themselves scams. FBI IC3 2024: fraud targeting prior fraud victims (double-dip scams) reported $67M in losses, with crypto recovery scams the fastest-growing subcategory.
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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