Fake romance / online dating scam — met on dating site or social media + military/oil rig/mission cover story + urgent 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 from a scammer posing as a romantic interest met on a dating site or social media — typically claiming to be a US soldier deployed abroad, a widower on an offshore oil rig, or a doctor on a UN mission. After establishing emotional investment, they fabricate an emergency (stolen wallet, injured colleague, customs clearance fee) and request money via wire transfer, MoneyGram, or gift cards, promising repayment. FTC 2023: romance scams are the costliest consumer fraud category at $1.3B total — median loss $4,400 per victim; targets disproportionately affect adults over 50. The military/overseas cover story is used in 40%+ of all reported romance scam cases.
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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