Spam

Spam is the transmission of unsolicited messages to e-mail accounts, Internet forums, cell phones, instant messaging systems, and video sharing sites. These ubiquitous messages bombard us daily and can bring mild amusement or major annoyance.

They entice with promises of wealth, employment, romance, or sexual enhancement but rarely deliver the intended results. While some are harmless, many are scams meant to trick readers into sending money or financial information. Still others contain worms that allow a spammer access to a user’s personal computer. It’s no surprise that bloggers turn to the Web to seek or offer advice and to vent their frustration over the constant threat spam poses to their computers and cell phones.

Though spam filters exist and a few spammers have been identified and held accountable for their mass mailings, legislation to ban or monitor spam varies from state to state and is often difficult to enforce. Spammers have also become increasingly savvy to the techniques used to block or suss them out. Spam levels are on the rise, and such messages will likely continue their assault on electronic forms of communication for some time to come.

 

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  More Twitter Phishing and Account Hacks Hit Today
  Twitter accounts were hijacked for spam delivery on Monday
  by boneinthefan / on Nov 2, 2009

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