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ThreatPhishing & impersonation

Fake remote job offer requiring the new hire to deposit a check and forward funds to a vendor or trainer — classic fake check scam; real employers never require employees to process money on behalf of the company before starting work.

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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

Fake remote job offer requiring the new hire to deposit a check and forward a portion of the funds to a vendor, trainer, or equipment supplier before the check bounces — the classic fake check scam in a job-offer wrapper. The check appears to clear (typically within 1-2 banking days) but bounces after 5-7 days, leaving the victim liable for the full amount wired. Real employers never require employees to process company money before starting work; this pattern has no legitimate use case. Distinct from freelance-w9-payment-phish (W9 credential harvest) and paycheck-advance-loan-phish (advance-fee loan) — this is the fake-check deposit-and-forward job scam. Detection: work from home/remote job/new hire + deposit check/forward funds/wire funds to vendor vocabulary + no List-Unsubscribe + no In-Reply-To + not protected sender. Trash score: +4. Source: GC1-R24; FTC fake check scam consumer alert 2025; FBI IC3 job scam advisory; IC3 2024: job and employment-related fraud losses exceeded $500M.

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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