Fake H&R Block, TurboTax, or Jackson Hewitt refund anticipation loan claiming an advance has been approved and requiring bank account verification via email link — advance-fee fraud; real tax preparer advances are offered through authenticated software, not cold email.
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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 H&R Block, TurboTax, or Jackson Hewitt tax preparation service claiming a refund anticipation loan or tax advance has been pre-approved and requiring bank account verification via email link for disbursement — advance-fee fraud targeting tax filers. Real tax refund advance products are offered during the filing process through authenticated tax preparation software and are never promoted via cold email links requesting banking credentials. Distinct from IRS-refund-direct-deposit-phish (IRS impersonation) — this spoofs a commercial tax preparer. Detection: H&R Block/TurboTax/Jackson Hewitt/refund advance loan approved + verify bank/provide account number for tax advance/refund advance disbursement vocabulary + no List-Unsubscribe + no In-Reply-To + not protected sender. Trash score: +3. Source: GC1-R23; FTC tax advance loan scam advisory; IRS dirty dozen 2025 (refund advance fraud variant).
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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