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ThreatScams & fraud

Fake romance scam / sweetheart money request

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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 using romantic relationship language (darling, sweetheart, "fell in love," deployed military persona, online connection) combined with a direct money-transfer request — the defining pattern of a romance / pig-butchering / sweetheart scam. Scammers build fake emotional relationships over weeks or months before requesting wire transfers, gift cards, cryptocurrency, or advance fees citing medical emergencies, legal trouble, or fictitious inheritance releases. FTC 2024: romance scams caused $1.14 billion in consumer losses, the highest dollar amount of any fraud category; median victim loss is $2,000.

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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