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Forum spam consists of posts on Internet forums that contains related or unrelated advertisements, links to malicious websites, trolling and abusive or otherwise unwanted information. Forum spam is usually posted onto message boards by automated spambots or manually with unscrupulous intentions with intent to get the spam in front of readers ...
Comment spam is a form of link spam that has arisen in web pages that allow dynamic user editing such as wikis, blogs, and guestbooks. It can be problematic because agents can be written that automatically randomly select a user edited web page, such as a Wikipedia article, and add spamming links.
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.
Referrer spam (also known as referral spam, log spam or referrer bombing) is a kind of spamdexing (spamming aimed at search engines). The technique involves making repeated web site requests using a fake referrer URL to the site the spammer wishes to advertise. [ 1 ]
Jay Allen created a free plugin, called MT-BlackList, [1] for the Movable Type weblog tool (versions prior to 3.2) that attempted to alleviate this problem. Many blogging packages now have methods of preventing or reducing the effect of blog spam built in due to its prevalence, although spammers too have developed tools to circumvent them.
A spambot is a computer program designed to assist in the sending of spam.Spambots usually create accounts and send spam messages with them. [1] Web hosts and website operators have responded by banning spammers, leading to an ongoing struggle between them and spammers in which spammers find new ways to evade the bans and anti-spam programs, and hosts counteract these methods.
Social spam is unwanted spam content appearing on social networking services, social bookmarking sites, [1] and any website with user-generated content (comments, chat, etc.). It can be manifested in many ways, including bulk messages, [ 2 ] profanity , insults , hate speech , malicious links, fraudulent reviews, fake friends, and personally ...
Early on, email spammers discovered that if they sent large quantities of email spam directly from their ISP accounts, recipients would complain and ISP's would shut their accounts down. Thus, one of the basic techniques of sending email spam has become to send it from someone else's computer and network connection .