Fake utility company targeting new movers claiming account setup requires SSN and bank account via email link to activate service — credential-harvest and bank-drain fraud; real utility activation uses authenticated portals, not cold email credential requests.
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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 utility company (electric, gas, water, power) targeting new movers by claiming new account setup or service activation requires SSN and bank account information submitted via email link before service can be activated — credential-harvest and bank-drain fraud. Real utility providers require in-person identity verification, online portal enrollment with authentication, or a phone call with the existing service address on record; cold emails demanding SSN and bank routing details to activate a new utility account are not a legitimate utility enrollment workflow. Distinct from utility-emergency-disconnection-phish (existing account disconnection threat) and utility-smart-meter-upgrade-phish (meter upgrade). Detection: electric/gas/water utility new account setup/service activation + provide SSN/bank account/routing number vocabulary + no List-Unsubscribe + no In-Reply-To + not protected sender. Trash score: +4. Source: GC1-R24; NARUC utility consumer protection guidelines; FTC utility impostor scam advisory 2025.
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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