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<script> tag in email body — near-perfect attack indicator (exfiltration / redirect)

script-in-body

What this tier means

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

How Gorganizer detects this

HTML body contains a `<script>` tag. Legitimate emails NEVER contain script tags — modern email clients (Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail) strip them for security, and no legitimate newsletter platform or transactional email provider ships them. Any presence is a near-perfect attack indicator: the only entities that embed scripts in email bodies are attackers trying to exfiltrate data, redirect the user on preview, or run XSS-style exploits against legacy/mobile clients that don't strip reliably. Weighted at +5 (same as iframe-in-body — another client-side-execution vector).

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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