June Census I smell a rat

[farmerm]

Firstly do you do it?

Secondly Is this particular email even legit? The underlying links are not to a domain I recognise as being genuine, its not even the address that the text shows it to be.. in any other email that should PHISHING EMAIL. It maybe this is genuine and these links enable tracking the effectiveness of the email campaign..? but frankly it really boils my pee when organisation like banks and government agencies send out genuine emails that encourage link clicking to such bulls**t web addresses. It normalises very unsafe internet behaviour, it normalises behaviour which exposes the average person to falling for phishing scams. Well if they are going to do it like this, they can go swivel.

 

[B'o'B]

Just type "https ://www.gov.uk/agricultural-survey" into your browser instead of clicking the link in the email.

 

[Bullring]

I got the email too, It says every 10 years, I’m sure it want 10 years ago since I filled in one of these poxy census forms, keeps somebody in a job.

 

[Chris F]

No its not - if you look at the link you are on, its doesn't go the the page that the text suggests it does. Also do not click on the link above.

 

[B'o'B]

No its not - if you look at the link you are on, its doesn't go the the page that the text suggests it does. Also do not click on the link above.

I deliberately didn't put it in as a link, but forum keeps turning into a link automatically, so I have added a space after the http which has stopped the forum software being too clever for its own good.

The survey is badly written for anyone who had sown stewardship options, as it fall into multiple categories and then messes up the total areas AB15 is grass sown in the last 5 years but also fallow. I guess I drop it from the grassland section.

 

[Still Farming]

What are these scammers after!

 

[manhill]

Firstly do you do it?

Secondly Is this particular email even legit? The underlying links are not to a domain I recognise as being genuine, its not even the address that the text shows it to be.. in any other email that should PHISHING EMAIL. It maybe this is genuine and these links enable tracking the effectiveness of the email campaign..? but frankly it really boils my pee when organisation like banks and government agencies send out genuine emails that encourage link clicking to such bullpoo web addresses. It normalises very unsafe internet behaviour, it normalises behaviour which exposes the average person to falling for phishing scams. Well if they are going to do it like this, they can go swivel.

ask for a paper form as you are nervous about online security. That might discourage gov from sending so much out.

 

[farmerm]

ask for a paper form as you are nervous about online security. That might discourage gov from sending so much out.

Bit of a difference between being nervous of online security and knowing how to identify the obvious clues phishing emails contain... and being annoyed with organisations who send out genuine emails which have all the red flags of a phishing email.

 

[manhill]

We'll be swamped with surveys etc in future because it's cheap and easy for officialdom to spew them out online and use their computers to process them. They might be less keen if they had to process by hand and use the paper mail to put them out.

 

[Bald Rick]

Never do a survey.

Better for your health imo

 

[7610 super q]

The most annoying thing ( IMO ) is they have all the information anyway from the SFP division. The number of people I employ, and the number of hours I work is none of their business.

 

[manhill]

They know everything about you, even the number of plys in your bog roll (unless you use cash).

 

[oil barron]

I received this one. Government worried about food security?

 

[JP1]

Firstly do you do it?

Secondly Is this particular email even legit? The underlying links are not to a domain I recognise as being genuine, its not even the address that the text shows it to be.. in any other email that should PHISHING EMAIL. It maybe this is genuine and these links enable tracking the effectiveness of the email campaign..? but frankly it really boils my pee when organisation like banks and government agencies send out genuine emails that encourage link clicking to such bullpoo web addresses. It normalises very unsafe internet behaviour, it normalises behaviour which exposes the average person to falling for phishing scams. Well if they are going to do it like this, they can go swivel.

And although it assures you your BPS / RPA cross compliance won't be checked it doesn't say anything about follow up with the compulsory question on health and safety written risk assessments

 

[B'o'B]

Who ticked the box at the end that said it was “for official use only”?

 

[robs1]

Sent it straight to the recycle bin, had the june census either last year or one before had several threatening letters but they gave up in the end. Just tell them you sent it in and they have lost it ,

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

I received this one. Government worried about food security?

ADAS will be earning good money from farmers filling in all that non obligatory info for free.....

 

[colhonk]

So is it real? thought it looks a bit suss myself. What has it got to do with gov anyway, is it to see what more they have to do to get rid of us?

 

[Nick.]

Ive just found the same in my junk folder. it can stay there too.
As said it just doesn’t look right some how.

 

[David.]

Surprised anyone fills a June census in anyway, not done one here since IACS.