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ThreatPhishing & impersonation

Fake HOA estoppel certificate notice requiring wire payment before real estate closing — targets estoppel fee fraud specifically.

homeowner-hoa-estoppel-phish

What this tier means

High-confidence threat indicator — phishing, impersonation, BEC, or scam pattern. Strong contributor to the trash decision.

How Gorganizer detects this

Fake HOA estoppel certificate or resale certificate notice requiring wire payment before real estate closing — targets estoppel fee fraud specifically. SACRED: 'estoppel certificate' added to safety-keywords.ts to protect real closing documents. Real estoppel certificates are ordered through the HOA management company or a licensed estoppel service (CondoCerts, HomeWise) via authenticated portal — NEVER via cold inbound email demanding wire payment with closing-deadline urgency. Detection: estoppel certificate/resale certificate/HOA payoff vocabulary + wire payment/closing requirement urgency + no In-Reply-To + no List-Unsubscribe. Trash score: +4. Source: GC1-R18; FBI HOA closing wire fraud advisory 2025; ALTA real estate fraud alert.

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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