West Midlands Trains workers discover email promising one-off payment is ‘phishing simulation test’
Rail unions have hit out at a “cynical and shocking stunt” after a train company emailed staff to promise a bonus to workers who had run trains during the pandemic – only to reveal it was in fact a test of their cybersecurity awareness.
West Midlands Trains emailed about 2,500 employees with a message saying its managing director, Julian Edwards, wanted to thank them for their hard work over the past year under Covid-19. The email said they would get a one-off payment as a thankyou after “huge strain was placed upon a large number of our workforce”.
