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ThreatPhishing & impersonation

CEO/BEC gift card fraud: executive impersonation asking employee to urgently purchase iTunes/Google Play/Amazon gift cards and share redemption codes — one of the FBI IC3 top-loss fraud patterns.

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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

CEO/BEC gift card fraud: executive impersonation asking an employee to urgently purchase iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, or similar gift cards and email the redemption codes — consistently one of the highest-volume and highest-loss BEC patterns per FBI IC3. The attacker spoofs or compromises an executive email and creates false urgency + confidentiality pressure. Detection: gift card purchase vocabulary (iTunes/Google Play/Amazon) + executive impersonation / confidential urgent CEO request + no List-Unsubscribe + no In-Reply-To + not protected sender. Trash score: +4. Source: GC1-R21; FBI IC3 BEC 2024 Annual Report; FTC gift card scam advisory.

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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