Fake landlord or property manager claiming a security deposit refund requires bank routing information via email for direct deposit — credential harvest and bank-drain fraud targeting tenants; real deposit refunds are issued by check or the original payment method.
rental-deposit-refund-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 landlord, property management company, or rental platform claiming a security deposit refund has been processed and requiring bank routing and account information via email for direct deposit — credential harvest and bank-drain fraud targeting recent movers and tenants. Real security deposit refunds are issued by check, money order, or returned to the original payment method and are governed by state landlord-tenant law; emails demanding bank credentials to "receive" a deposit refund are bank-account-takeover attacks. Detection: security deposit/rental deposit refund + provide bank account/routing number/banking information for deposit refund vocabulary + no List-Unsubscribe + no In-Reply-To + not protected sender. Trash score: +3. Source: GC1-R23; CFPB rental scam advisory 2025; FTC security deposit 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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