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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.
Related titles should be described in Comment spam, while unrelated titles should be moved to Comment spam (disambiguation). Comment spam is a term referencing a broad category of spambot or spammer postings which abuse web-based forms to post unsolicited advertisements as comments on forums, blogs, wikis and online guestbooks.
Used mostly to suggest mischief, imply sexual innuendo or a second hidden meaning behind a sentence, or is pasted over and over to spam online discussions. [32] ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ "Raise Your Dongers", a meme originated from Twitch, unclear meaning [33] [34] ಠ_ಠ ಠ__ಠ ಠ益ಠ 😐😑🤨 "Look of Disapproval" [35] [36]
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"Spam" (Monty Python sketch), a comedy sketch "Spam", a song on the album It Means Everything (1997), by Save Ferris "Spam", a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic on the album UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff; Spam Museum, a museum in Austin, Minnesota, US dedicated to the canned pork meat product
Social spam is on the rise, with analysts reporting over a tripling of social spam activity in six months. [7] It is estimated that up to 40% of all social user accounts are fake, depending on the site. [8] In August, 2012, Facebook admitted through its updated regulatory filing [9] that 8.7% of its 955 million active accounts were fake. [10]
Messaging spam on Telegram. Instant messaging systems, such as Telegram, WhatsApp, Twitter Direct Messaging, Kik, Skype and Snapchat are all targets for spammers. [4] Many IM services are publicly linked to social media platforms, which may include information on the user such as age, sex, location and interests.
On Internet usage, an email bomb is a form of net abuse that sends large volumes of email to an address to overflow the mailbox, [1] [2] overwhelm the server where the email address is hosted in a denial-of-service attack [3] or as a smoke screen to distract the attention from important email messages indicating a security breach.