Fake social media platform notice claiming the target's account has been suspended for policy violations and requiring identity verification via email link to restore access — credential-harvest attack; real platform account actions are communicated through in-app notifications and the platform's authenticated support portal.
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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 social media or content platform notice (impersonating Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, YouTube, or similar platforms) claiming the target's account has been suspended or restricted for policy violations and requiring identity verification via email link to restore or recover access — credential-harvest attack. Real platform account suspensions and policy enforcement actions are communicated through in-app notifications and the platform's authenticated support portal (e.g., Facebook Help Center, Instagram Support, Twitter Help Center); platforms never require users to verify their identity by clicking an external link in a cold inbound email to lift a policy-violation suspension. This pattern exploits the anxiety of losing access to a social presence, follower base, or business page to coerce rapid credential submission. Distinct from e-commerce-account-verification-phish (online marketplace account modality) and paypal-account-hold-phish (financial platform account hold) — this targets the social media platform / suspended-for-policy-violations / verify-identity-to-restore-access pretext. Detection: account suspended/suspension + policy violation + verify identity to restore/regain access vocabulary + no List-Unsubscribe + no In-Reply-To + not protected sender. Trash score: +3. Source: GC1-R28; APWG social media phishing report Q1 2026; FTC social media impostor scam advisory 2025; Meta phishing awareness guidance; CISA social media credential-harvest alert.
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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