Gig platform earnings-hold / payment-delay scam — impersonates Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, or Instacart claiming earned wages are on hold and requiring bank account or tax-form verification to release. Abnormal Security Feb 2026; FTC Mar 2026; KrebsOnSecurity Jan 2026.
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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
Emails targeting gig economy workers (Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, Grubhub, Amazon Flex) claiming their earned wages or delivery payments are being held, requiring bank account verification, tax documentation, or a "verification fee" to release the funds. This is distinct from fake-gig-worker-deactivation-lure (account suspension narrative) — this signal targets payment-delay fraud where already-earned money is held hostage as leverage. Abnormal Security (February 2026) documented active campaigns harvesting bank account details; the FTC warned gig workers in March 2026; KrebsOnSecurity reported $4.2M in losses from gig-worker payment-delay fraud in Q4 2025 alone.
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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