Simonwalcal said "I am grateful for the cash infusion, but how the recipients received both their paystub AND these follow-up documents was idiotic (from the perspective of someone who has learned to treat email as a zero-trust vector).
It started with the payment deposited email which had the paystub attached as a PDF. Though it made sense that I would get such an email, it was also in a sense unsolicited. Most government stuff involving this kind of thing (T4's and such) is done through the mail (unless you change this manually).
So whilst it made sense that I would be receiving something like that, the attached PDF also raised a red flag.
Fun fact: email is the #1 vector that cyber snoops use to get into organizations. If I am sounding a little paranoid, THIS is why.
As though the first email wasn't bad enough, then came the 2ed round of messages that were so terribly distributed that the media had to correct people (me i:ncluded!) from there rightful assumption of these emails involving a scam.
I get that this was likely cheaper than mailing a few thousand T4 slips. But honestly, I think I would rather spend the cash than to start teaching people subconsciously to trust even suspect looking email messages from government authorities. "
Minor typo correction request on my last post (since I was obviously half asleep at the time)
// As though the first email wasn't bad enough, then came the 2ed round of messages that were so terribly distributed that the media had to correct people (me i:ncluded!) from their** rightful assumption of these emails involving a scam. //
Edited by Simonwalcal, 2020-08-22 08:13:05