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Rental advance fraud — landlord abroad + mail keys after payment + Western Union deposit

rental-advance-fraud

What this tier means

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

How Gorganizer detects this

Body contains a rental property listing (apartment/house for rent at a stated monthly price) combined with one or more fraud indicators: (1) the landlord claims to be "abroad/overseas/on a missionary trip" and unable to show the property; (2) the landlord offers to "mail the keys" once payment is received; or (3) deposit/rent payment is requested via Western Union, MoneyGram, or wire transfer. There is no property to view — the keys never arrive. No legitimate landlord mails keys before a deposit is verified through a bank, and no legitimate landlord requests Western Union or MoneyGram for rent.

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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