Crosswords31 mins ago
F.a.o: Pinkyboyid
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This is just a message to hopefully save you wasting your time answering questions from spammers:
We regularly get posts from first-time users (typically with forename+surname usernames, such as 'CharlesBiggins') about problems with corrupted files. They tend to be about .dbx or .pst files but we also get them about Excel and Access files, among others).
Some time later, such posts are always followed by another new user (probably also with a forename+surname username), providing a link to some 'wonder program', that's guaranteed to fix the problem. (i.e. they're spam!).
To make the questions look authentic though, the spammer always copies genuine questions from elsewhere on the web. Whenever I spot that this has happened I immediately zap the spammer but, unfortunately, I often don't see the post until after you've spent some time composing an answer to the question.
If you encounter such a question again, I suggest copying a sentence or so from it and putting it into Google to see if it shows up. For example,I've just deleted a thread about corrupted Microsoft Access files (which you'd already posted on) because Google showed that the question was copied from a 2006 post on another forum.
Hoping that this helps you from wasting your time,
Chris
We regularly get posts from first-time users (typically with forename+surname usernames, such as 'CharlesBiggins') about problems with corrupted files. They tend to be about .dbx or .pst files but we also get them about Excel and Access files, among others).
Some time later, such posts are always followed by another new user (probably also with a forename+surname username), providing a link to some 'wonder program', that's guaranteed to fix the problem. (i.e. they're spam!).
To make the questions look authentic though, the spammer always copies genuine questions from elsewhere on the web. Whenever I spot that this has happened I immediately zap the spammer but, unfortunately, I often don't see the post until after you've spent some time composing an answer to the question.
If you encounter such a question again, I suggest copying a sentence or so from it and putting it into Google to see if it shows up. For example,I've just deleted a thread about corrupted Microsoft Access files (which you'd already posted on) because Google showed that the question was copied from a 2006 post on another forum.
Hoping that this helps you from wasting your time,
Chris
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