• Pr0methean (unregistered)

    Ovostake is a scam site according to https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/scammers-unleash-flood-of-slick-online-gaming-sites/ -- it will steal the deposit you use for verification. And this post gives that scam free advertising -- Lyle should either crop out the branding or check frist if a site is legit.

  • AzureDiamond (unregistered)

    the gambling email looks like a scam just using a random common name when they cant guess it from the address

  • (nodebb) in reply to AzureDiamond

    I think that's the subject line at the top. It has his correct name.

  • (author) in reply to Pr0methean

    Updated to limit advertising - thanks for the heads up. I hope Michael knows.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Lyle Seaman

    More to the point, the casino spam is not an "error'd", it's a just a boring regular spam email not even worthy of featuring here at all. It would only be an error if the submitter actually expected email from them. YMMV.

    There's a ton of crap like that in my Gmail spam folder that I typically don't even see as Gmail filters them proactively.

  • Michael R (unregistered)

    Good call Lyle.

  • Neveranull (unregistered)

    If a dividend of $NaN was credited to his account, I wonder how much of that he could withdraw. Perhaps he’s a trillionaire!

  • Officer Johnny Holzkopf (unregistered) in reply to Neveranull

    Nah... NaN is "not a number", so the dividend will consist of something that you can't count: maybe it's a pile of lumber, a bunch of cattle, several Internets, or some other usefull stuff?

  • Zainab (unregistered)

    Is it possible the Employee Benefits page had a brain fart and misread 401 as 410, resulting in a “no longer available”?

  • Duke of New York (unregistered)

    Don't make me tap the sign that says "Since gullibility is unobservable, the best strategy is to get those who possess this quality to self-identify."

  • (nodebb) in reply to Officer Johnny Holzkopf

    I disagree. If the dividend were a physical object such as a pile of lumber of a herd of cattle, then it could be converted into a number of dollars. Since this is NaN, the dividend must be something like "happiness" (as money can't buy happiness) or "love" (as money can't buy me love).

  • (nodebb) in reply to sibtrag

    Money can't buy you love they say.

    But who are "they"?

    The Beatles.

    ~~ stolen from a comedian I saw many years ago at Glastonbury.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Ralf

    Well they put Paul in the message and Michael R in the subject line. It is a WTF, button that I suspect is fairly common.

    Addendum 2025-12-08 11:00: s/button/but one/

  • (nodebb) in reply to Duke of New York

    Technically "gullibility" is not a word. Since it stems from the verb to "gull" you should write "gullity"[1].

    [1] source: Oxford English Dictionary.

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