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E-mail spam is a subset of spam that involves sending nearly identical messages to thousands (or millions) of recipients by E-mail. Perpetrators of such spam ("spammers") often harvest addresses of prospective recipients from Usenet postings or from web pages, obtain them from databases, or simply guess them by using common names and domains. By popular definition, spam occurs without the permission of the recipients.
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As the recipient directly bears the cost of delivery, storage, and processing, one could regard spam as the electronic equivalent of "postage-due" junk mail. However, the Direct Marketing Association will point to the existence of "legitimate" e-mail marketing. Most commentators classify e-mail-based marketing campaigns where the recipient has "opted in" to receive the marketer's message as "legitimate".
Spammers frequently engage in deliberate fraud to send out their messages. Spammers often use false names, addresses, phone numbers, and other contact information to set up "disposable" accounts at various Internet service providers. They also often use falsified or stolen credit card numbers to pay for these accounts. This allows them to move quickly from one account to the next as the host ISPs discover and shut down each one.
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Just got unsolicited email from a super high-end jeweler in Phoenix. 1. haven't lived in Phx since June 2008; 2. it was sent to work #fail
mel_culbertson (mel_culbertson) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:36:31 -0000
Just got unsolicited email from a super high-end jeweler in Phoenix. 1. haven't lived in Phx since June 2008; 2. it was sent to work #fail
All this unsolicited OMG OUTRAGE CHINA Falun Gong email spam is making me not like Falun Gong too much.
brownpau (brownpau) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:38:41 -0000
All this unsolicited OMG OUTRAGE CHINA Falun Gong email spam is making me not like Falun Gong too much.
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Controversial Spam Bill Takes Step Forward - A bill opponents say would legitimize spam moves forward in the U.S. House.
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SpamCon Foundation - Organization supporting measures to reduce the amount of unsolicited email that crosses private networks, while ensuring that valid email reaches its destination.
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commerce by reducing the amount of spam on the Internet ]
USA Today: New Law Packs Potent Tools - Opinion piece that describes the Can-Spam Act as an effective means to combat the annoying scourge of spam.
Meta Description: [ The exploding volume of unwanted commercial e-mail messages known as spam threatens the future of e-mail as a form of communication. ]
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