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Fake utility bill service disconnection threat

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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 a utility company (electricity, gas, water, power) threatening immediate service disconnection for an overdue balance and demanding payment via gift card, wire transfer, or a phone call with card details. Utility impersonation scams are year-round and target all demographics, frequently using "final notice" and same-day disconnect pressure. AARP/FTC 2024: utility scams are a top-3 impersonation fraud category with $200M+ in annual US consumer losses.

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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