SARS' insanity prevails!

I registered a new company and shortly thereafter received this email from SARS

Ah! That is clearly the Tax number of the new company. Great service! double click on the pdf and guess what?

State secret! It would have been really funny if the password had been the tax number, but I looked up the tax number at CIPC and tried it, but no, not the tax number, not the company number, not my ID.

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Michael May 19, 2026

Something seems off there – .xml shouldn’t be in the file name and has nothing to do with PDFs.

I would not trust that file 😅

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1. Derek Springett May 19, 2026
  
  Hi Mike,
  I didn’t spot that. But if it was a scam, why would the file be password protected so that I couldn’t open it anyway?
  
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