No, that is a legit email, I spent nearly 16 years looking at stuff like that while in the Navy. That is what gets printed when you print an email from within Outlook, which has been government standard since 1998 at least. Government email addresses are almost always [email protected], so that checks out. So does the signature block at the bottom, which most government emails have.
What this look like to me is she is in charge of an office section that makes contracts for travel, and she is emailing her staff a list of terms to check for when soliciting bids for travel contracts. She likely did not come up with this list herself, and it is obviously malicious compliance, which has been going around a LOT in both the civilian and military bureaucracy in the last few months.
Honestly, it looks like someone took an email into a new browser window on Uutlook365. I actually found it suspicious that every recipient had the [email protected] format for their address, but apparently USDA has gone through and reformatted their email addresses in the last few years.
Bullshit.
That said even if this is real and not malicious compliance, 90% of those topics aren't in the purview of the USDA.
Yeah.
Things can get weird when you print them, but this isn't even standard email printing.
Looks like a text document made to look like an email. Now, to be fair, there could be reasons for that, but the whole thing looks sketchy as hell.
No, that is a legit email, I spent nearly 16 years looking at stuff like that while in the Navy. That is what gets printed when you print an email from within Outlook, which has been government standard since 1998 at least. Government email addresses are almost always [email protected], so that checks out. So does the signature block at the bottom, which most government emails have.
What this look like to me is she is in charge of an office section that makes contracts for travel, and she is emailing her staff a list of terms to check for when soliciting bids for travel contracts. She likely did not come up with this list herself, and it is obviously malicious compliance, which has been going around a LOT in both the civilian and military bureaucracy in the last few months.
Honestly, it looks like someone took an email into a new browser window on Uutlook365. I actually found it suspicious that every recipient had the [email protected] format for their address, but apparently USDA has gone through and reformatted their email addresses in the last few years.
Yeah, considering it's government emails, the format would likely be consistent, and that's not suspicious.
But the formatting itself still looks more like a text document than a real email, but I'm not super familiar with Outlook, so who knows.
No, not really. That's why I thought it was suspicious.