Fake IRS tax debt / arrest threat scam
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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
Email impersonating the IRS or a federal tax collection agency claiming the recipient owes unpaid back taxes, has an active tax lien, or is the subject of a lawsuit — threatening immediate arrest, property seizure, deportation, or law enforcement dispatch unless payment is made immediately, often via gift cards, wire transfer, or cryptocurrency. The real IRS always contacts taxpayers by postal mail first and never demands immediate gift-card payment. FTC 2024: IRS impostor scams are perennially in the top 3 government impersonation categories; Treasury OIG reports 2M+ IRS impersonation contacts per year.
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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