How would the phpBB software know what it is if it isn’t stored in the database?
Please: let me know - anyone - next time you see a spammer on this site. As in, a piece of actual spam. And anyone is welcome to PM me any time they think - with good reason - that a piece of spam that they’ve received has been as a result of their membership here. I don’t anticipate a flood of PMs, partly at least because Mods around here aren’t indifferent to matters of privacy. I’m guessing another part of the reason is that the software does seem to work, after a fashion.
Told you I wasn’t technical. They must be stored in a database, mustn’t they? I suppose what I meant was that that databse can’t be accessible. If it was, there’s be hundreds of spam attacks all the time, and there are in fact a miniscule number, AFAIK. That is actually what I was thinking when I said “readable database”, ie one that an outisde person would be able to read in database format.
Is there better technical language I should have used to convey the meaning I intended?
Hmmm … I just had a look at Fluteland. Flooded with spam indeed. Same software as this site. As I say, this site doesn’t have any spam. The software helps. That and a certain amount of concern about spam on the part of your Mods hereabouts, plus a degree of effort. I wonder if they need some assistance over there? Not that I have the time. I’m more concerned with what we have here.
I would guess that the real reason is that the spammers have looked at your avatar photo and said to themselves, “I’m not wasting my time with this mouse”.
Mouse?! MOUSE???!?!! Ay’ll 'ave you know, ay’m a werry respeckable monkey.
Hmph!
Good one though. 
So, since you clearly are worth bothering with Doug, and you do show your e-mail address, I’m guessing from your above comment that you’re flooded with C&F-related spam pretty much constantly, eh?
Yep.
Reading the linked thread, I’m guessing that my “obfuscator module” needs fine tuning. Actually, I get very little spam that gets to my inbox. Most of the spam (10-20 per day) is automatically filtered to my google mail spam folder, where I daily review it for anything that may be there in error.
Yeah, but I’ll bet that, of that “10-20 per day”, approximately zero originates hereabouts. On average. Please do correct me if I’m wrong.
If your setting for User Control Panel/Board preferences/Edit global settings/Users can contact me by e-mail: is Yes then your email address is part of the web page. Try View/Page source in your browser.
I’d think that hacking into the server and the database server that we’re using shouldn’t be that difficult, compared to the places that get in the news. Not as profitable either 
Well now, you’ve probably hit the nail on the head there.
so’s I went there… I had a PM, from some user that had never posted, saying that he’d found a virus on me machine!!! and to click this link!!! What a helpful sot!!!
Should I PM back me monkey finger?
Oh I think you should respond. Sounds helpful to me. He could probably do with access to your machine while he sorts out your problem too.*
But, spelling it out, what was just slightly niggling me up above was the implication that it was pure chance that this site isn’t as infested as that other one is. It’s not pure chance. Nuff said?
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- Just while we’re on the subject, has the UK phenomenon of phoning you at home on the landline with the tale that your address has been identified as the sender of spam and they’ll just helpfully clean up your hard drive for you … has that phone campaign style reached the States? I expect you all had it a long time ago, did you? Some of them have even claimed to be from some government agency or other.
Don’t worry about them Ben. The fluteland forum is always like that 
Usually it’s rather slow. The mods will eventually catch up with the spam.
I just don’t want this forum to become as lethargic and prone to infections like Fluteland.
In any case, it seems ‘Percy Smith’’ message is intended to target flute makers who sell flutes, no? Well he’s sent it to flute players…maybe something wrong with his spamming algorithm
I’d think that if he could fine me machine and determine that there was a virus on the sucker he could’a just removed it while he was here in the first place.
The moderators here are here much of the time and do a fine job of policing the area.
dunno… I’m a bit too rural for a lot of that.
what JA said about Fluteland 
I seem to have quit mentioning it to those Boehm people that drift through…
I haven’t heard of that one, but my parents who are in their mid 80s get scam phone calls all the time. These scammers must have raided the AARP or some other similar database because they target the elderly. The best one they got was a call from a very exited and frantic voice claiming to be my teen-aged nephew. He had supposedly traveled to Canada with a friend and his mother and they had gotten arrested for speeding or some such garbage. He said he needed my dad to wire money to an account in Spain. Right!
I got one [no,two] e-mails requesting similar info so that they could send their sixteen year old daughter down to my house for music lessons [un-specified as to instrument]. It was supposedly sent from Edinburgh. Uh-huh.
I love the ones that ask, in less-than-perfect English, whether I can supply my goods to Australia. If I had a bit more time, I’d say yes, just to see what happens next!
Terry
Usually what will happen next is: They will send you a cheque/money order for an amount much higher than you have for specified with the request that you take the money owed, plus a bit extra for your trouble, and forward the remainder, via Western Union or Money Gram. After a period of time the bank will discover that the cheque money order, often a very good forgery or stolen item, will discover the fraud and you will be out a great deal of money.
Don’t ever give these people any traceable information regarding yourself, they can be very dangerous and in the past deaths have resulted, scam baiting can be fun but you need to be very careful and spend time setting it up safely, if you’re interested in how these things work check out 419 eater.
I received this email some weeks ago but ignored it as it came into my main email account as opposed to one of the ones I use for baiting.