Fake DMCA / AI-generated legal threat phishing — impersonates copyright enforcement with DMCA/cease-and-desist urgency + dispute CTA at a non-official link, harvesting credentials. FBI IC3 2025 (+480% AI-generated legal notices); Abnormal Security Apr 2026.
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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
Emails impersonating AI-generated DMCA / copyright takedown notices demanding the recipient log in to dispute the violation via a lookalike credential-harvesting portal. Three-part detection: (1) DMCA / copyright / cease-and-desist language, (2) legal-urgency timeline ("respond within 24 hours to avoid legal action"), (3) dispute CTA with an off-platform link from a non-known DMCA authority. FBI IC3 2025 documented a 480% YoY surge in AI-generated legal-threat notices; Proofpoint Q1 2026 and Cofense identified credential portals spoofing copyright.gov and DMCA.com. Distinct from existing legal-threat and sextortion signals — this specifically targets the DMCA / IP enforcement vector with a "dispute" call-to-action.
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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