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AOHell was the first of what would become thousands of programs designed for hackers created for use with AOL. In 1994, seventeen year old hacker Koceilah Rekouche, from Pittsburgh, PA, known online as "Da Chronic", [1] [2] used Visual Basic to create a toolkit that provided a new DLL for the AOL client, a credit card number generator, email bomber, IM bomber, and a basic set of instructions. [3]
An email inbox containing a large amount of spam messages. Spamming is the use of messaging systems to send multiple unsolicited messages (spam) to large numbers of recipients for the purpose of commercial advertising, non-commercial proselytizing, or any prohibited purpose (especially phishing), or simply repeatedly sending the same message to the same user.
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spam – unwanted repetitious messages, such as unsolicited bulk e-mail. The term spam is derived from the Monty Python SPAM sketch, set in a cafe where everything on the menu includes SPAM luncheon meat. While a customer plaintively asks for some kind of food without SPAM in it, the server reiterates the SPAM-filled menu.
Spam is irrelevant, inappropriate, or malicious email. Our filters try to keep spam out of your Inbox, but they don't catch everything. Flag an email as spam to help train the filter. 1. Tap an email to open it or Edit and select multiple emails. 2. Tap the More icon. 3. Tap Mark as spam.
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The history of email spam reaches back to the mid-1990s, when commercial use of the internet first became possible [1] [2] —and marketers and publicists began to test what was possible. Very soon, email spam was ubiquitous, unavoidable, and repetitive. [3] This article details significant events in the history of spam, and the efforts made to ...
While 99.9% of spam, malware and phishing emails are being caught by our spam filters, occasionally some can slip through. When this happens, it's very important to mark the email as spam, then our system will learn that messages from a specific sender aren't good and helps us make AOL Mail even better at recognizing future spam emails.