Watermarking PDF's when email recipients open them as attachments

Hello,
I have a request from a client of mine regarding features in Adobe Acrobat. They mentioned they received a PDF file from someone via email and when they opened the attachment, they saw a watermark with their email address, date and time on it. They thought this was a cool way to secure information or at least provide who owns it.
Do you know if this is a feature when creating a PDF? I'm unable to Google any direct answers without using 3rd party apps which don't seem to do exactly what I'm looking for.
Right now they don't have an Acrobat license and I need to be able to guide them on what version and features to purchase if this is at all possible. It would be nice if these features where available on the creative cloud as well.
If I need to move this to another sub topic I'm happy to do so.

I understand that thanks for the response - However, I have these specific requirements which I want to know if they are possible or not.
The owner creates a PDF and sends it to someone via email
He would like when the owner opens the PDF - To have the recipients email address, date, time, watermarked on that PDF
The client claims this is the case for some PDF's they receive from other companies

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