Hi is this a scam

[crusher]

Hi is this a scam as the link comes up as a 404 or is that just the usual government incompetency ? This was sent to my email.

“Hi,
This is an auto-generated email to notify you that your e-GUI has been generated and is now available on the E invoice audit system on the Ministry of Finance platform. From 01-Jan-20, Facebook now sends transaction information to the Taiwanese Ministry of Finance for E-Invoicing purposes, in accordance with local regulations.
This email does not contain an attachment of your e-GUI.”

[TT]

Graphic user interface?

[qwert_zuiop]

@crusher

From 01-Jan-20, Facebook now sends transaction information to the Taiwanese Ministry of Finance for E-Invoicing purposes, in accordance with local regulations.

Did you buy anything from Facebook?

It could be a real email - it could be one sent by a scammer made to look like a real one.
What’s the sender’s address?

@TT

Graphic user interface?

I think MoF often refers to electronic Fapiaos as “eGUI” in English translations. That part is not suspicous.

[crusher]

@qwert_zuiop

@crusher

From 01-Jan-20, Facebook now sends transaction information to the Taiwanese Ministry of Finance for E-Invoicing purposes, in accordance with local regulations.

Did you buy anything from Facebook?

It could be a real email - it could be one sent by a scammer made to look like a real one.
What’s the sender’s address?

@TT

Graphic user interface?

I think MoF often refers to electronic Fapiaos as “eGUI” in English translations. That part is not suspicous.

Yes I bought some Facebook advertising but a tiny amount. Maybe it’s that. Its just when I went to the link it said 404

Email was from notifications@facebookmail.com

Anyway I’ll ignore it.

[slawa]

Foreign companies usually use payment processing companies who follow local regulations. In Taiwan an invoice should also have a fapiao.

So they just send the electronic fapiao to the email attached to the account.

You can register your email-addresses (where you expect to receive invoices) to your “Mobile Barcode” at https://www.einvoice.nat.gov.tw
Then all fapiaos will be automatically redeemed to your e-invoice account and prize money can be set up top be auto paid to your bank account.

Binding Setting > Other Carrier Binding > Carrier Type: Cross-border e-commerce email carrier

Enter your email and receive a one time password to confirm your email.

All foreign digital service providers work like this.
Google (incl. YouTube), CloudFlare, AWS, Steam …

If you set it up this way, you can not be scammed. Everything is automated.

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To manually check if notifications@facebookmail.com in your case is not faked you need to check email headers.
But a 404 link in a valid email would be the fault of the payment processor, not the government.

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I won 200NTD once from my YouTube Premium family subscription.

Taiwan Receipt Lottery

Turns out the 200 NTD win was from an overseas company. One can bind the email address to your mobile barcode account. Then all the fapiao’s associated to that email will also be automatically redeemed. [email] The 200 NTD win was from my monthly YouTube Premium family subscription purchase. Now my AWS cloud bill fapiao’s also show up in the app automatically.

[Steve4nLanguage]

@qwert_zuiop

I think MoF often refers to electronic Fapiaos as “eGUI” in English translations. That part is not suspicous.

I’ve received similar emails. By the way, eGUI stands for Electronic Government Uniform Invoice.