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ThreatPhishing & impersonation

Fake Booking.com guest payment re-verification phishing — abuses hacked hotel Booking.com accounts to send payment-reverification requests from the legitimate booking.com domain, directing to a fraudulent card-entry page with reservation-cancellation urgency. NCA / Booking.com advisory 2025-2026; Abnormal Security hospitality-phish Q1 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

Phishing attack exploiting hacked hotel Booking.com accounts — attacker sends payment-re-verification requests from the legitimate booking.com domain directing guests to off-domain card-entry pages with reservation-cancellation urgency. Distinct from host-side hospitality phishing: targets GUESTS not hosts. Three-part detection: (1) sender on booking.com, (2) re-verify-payment / re-enter-card / update-payment-method urgency, (3) off-booking.com link, no In-Reply-To. NCA / Booking.com advisory 2025-2026; Abnormal Security hospitality-phish 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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