Fake attorney, estate administrator, or foreign official claiming the target is named as a beneficiary in an estate and must pay a transfer tax or legal fee via email to claim the inheritance — advance-fee (419) fraud; real estate administration is conducted through probate courts and licensed attorneys, never cold email upfront-fee demands to release inheritance funds.
inheritance-estate-transfer-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 attorney, estate administrator, foreign government official, or bank officer claiming the recipient has been named as a beneficiary in a deceased person's estate and must pay a transfer tax, legal fee, or processing fee via email to release the inheritance funds — advance-fee (419 / Nigerian Prince variant) fraud. Real estate administration and inheritance claims are conducted through probate courts and licensed estate attorneys in the jurisdiction where the estate is being administered; real inheritance does not require the beneficiary to wire upfront fees to a stranger via cold email before receiving funds. This is the modern variant of the classic 419 advance-fee fraud pattern, updated with plausible estate / probate / transfer-tax vocabulary to sound more legitimate. Distinct from government-grant-stimulus-phish (government payment narrative) and lottery-sweepstakes-prize-phish (prize claim narrative) — this specifically targets the inheritance / estate-beneficiary / transfer-tax pretext. Detection: inheritance/estate/beneficiary/deceased + pay transfer tax/legal fee to claim inheritance vocabulary + no List-Unsubscribe + no In-Reply-To + not protected sender. Trash score: +5. Source: GC1-R26; FBI IC3 advance-fee fraud advisory; FTC Nigerian Prince scam evolution report 2025; Interpol financial crime unit estate fraud patterns.
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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