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ThreatPhishing & impersonation

Fake pension fund, 401k, or 403b administrator claiming a hardship withdrawal or emergency lump-sum rollover has been approved and requiring bank account verification via email link — real retirement distributions never require email-link bank updates.

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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 pension fund, 401k, or 403b plan administrator claiming a hardship withdrawal, emergency early access, or lump-sum rollover has been approved and requiring bank account and routing number via email link for disbursement — targets retirement savers. Real retirement distributions are initiated through authenticated plan administrator portals (Fidelity, Vanguard, Empower) and require written authorization; cold emails demanding bank credentials to disburse retirement funds are credential-harvest and bank-takeover attacks. Detection: pension/401k/403b hardship withdrawal/emergency/lump-sum approved + verify bank/provide routing/submit banking for retirement vocabulary + no List-Unsubscribe + no In-Reply-To + not protected sender. Trash score: +4. Source: GC1-R23; DOL 401k phishing advisory; SEC retirement account credential harvest warning 2025.

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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