To the administrator

[lxrose]

Dear Administrator,

I just want to let you know (if you don't know already), that this forum is used by spammers to get e-mail addresses. The e-mail starts with :

"Greetings and How are you today,I am Edwin Kwaussi I am member of www.kubuntuforums.net I would like you to permit me to apply through this medium for your co-operation and to secure an opportunity to invest and do joint relationship and business with you in your country."

I assume they want money by some illegal way. If you could make your site more secure, I would appreciate.
Thanks,
Sandor

[musta ruhtinas]

Re: To the administrator

Your e-mail address is visible even to a non-member of the forum (i saw it as i was reading both the rss feed and the post before logging in); you should hide it by going to Profile > Account Related Settings and checking the hide e-mail box

edit: i now notice my e-mail address is visible to forum members

[honorshark]

Re: To the administrator

I've got this spam too...I'm confused about this page

[askrieger]

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Unfortunately, I was unable to find the name Edwin Kwaussi on our membership list, so I couldn't drop him from the membership. I'm glad that everyone seems to realize that this is not happening with the approval or consent of the site. Besides, I thought that Nigerian email scams were so well known nowadays that not even a grade schooler would fall for that one.

[Open Source]

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Ok I think everything should be fixed now. Thanks for letting me know about the issue. I apologize for the slow response, however I am in Africa at the moment and at my current location internet is hard to come by.

OS

[dibl]

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I am in Africa at the moment ...

Hmmmmmmmm ... you wouldn't be in NIGERIA, would you, OS?

[MoonRise]

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Good one Dibl . Still, to the others, I know this isn't a joke.

[Open Source]

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LOL, no actually I am just on vacation in Kenya. At least now spammers will have to register in order to view email addresses, and they should be hidden by default now. Thanks.

OS

[lxrose]

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Thanks for the replies. And of course for the administrator for the fast action even when he is away in the far Kenya. :-) Have a nice vacation.

By the way I replied to our guy Edwin (or whatever name he uses) in Hungarian first. He wrote the complete War and peace and asked if I could write in English or French. Then I used low level "dictionary English" and make a dumb ass of myself, and he didn't write since then. I thought this will be a fun for longer. Perhaps I should ask "Where is my money?"