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SPAMMING

ABSTRACT



Spam is unsolicited junk E-mail that commercial companies send out asking you to buy their goods and services. At times it may contain inducements to visit the seller’s site. The E-mail usually contains a phone no: to call, an address to send money to, or a website to visit to buy the goods and services.
Spam is sometimes termed as Unsolicited Bulk Email, or UBE, is the Internet mail ("email") that is sent to a group of recipients who have not requested it. A mail recipient may have at one time asked a sender for bulk email, but then later asked that sender not to send any more email or otherwise not have indicated a desire for such additional mail; hence any bulk email sent after that request was received is also UBE.
It was originally used to refer to unsolicited postings for commercial products or services on Usenet, especially when there were cross-posted to several newsgroups.
These spams cause many problems, mainly to the recip...

Posted by: Jack Drewes

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