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ThreatPhishing & impersonation

Fake BEC-style vendor invoice approval — CEO/CFO impersonation demanding urgent wire transfer via cold inbound email rather than through ERP portal (SAP/NetSuite/QuickBooks).

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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 BEC-style vendor invoice approval email purportedly from a CEO, CFO, or executive demanding urgent wire transfer authorization for an outstanding vendor invoice. Real vendor invoice approvals go through ERP portals (SAP, NetSuite, QuickBooks) — they are NEVER initiated by cold inbound email with a wire transfer link. Classic accounts payable fraud targeting finance staff. Detection: vendor invoice/accounts payable/approve invoice vocabulary + wire transfer/EOD urgency + CEO/CFO/executive impersonation + no In-Reply-To + not protected sender. Trash score: +4. Source: GC1-R19; FBI IC3 BEC advisory 2025; ACFE AP fraud report.

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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