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ThreatPhishing & impersonation

Fake IRS audit notice phishing

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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

Attacker impersonates the IRS (or HMRC, CRA, ATO) claiming the recipient's tax return has been "selected for audit" or placed under review, then demands immediate identity verification, banking details, or a settlement payment to avoid escalation — IRS impersonation fraud caused $5.5 billion in losses in 2024 according to the FTC; the real IRS contacts taxpayers by postal mail, never email.

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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