Spam involves sending unsolicited e-mail to many people, and is a very common practice today. It is not unusual for the average person to have 30% of his or her e-mail as spam, and there is a huge demand for new techniques to block spam including the existing methods, such as spam blockers, spam filters and the creation of e-mail whitelists.
The most unfortunate aspect of how spam works is that it is quite simple. A spammer needs only collect a large number of web addresses and an unwanted advertisement can be sent to hundreds of people. Many spammers use software to make their spamming easier. There are many different kinds of spam and people who are responsible for this annoyance.
E-mail spam involves simply sending out an ad to hundreds of recipients. Many people have spam blockers in place, which bounce the unsolicited e-mail back tot he sender, or filters which place the suspicious e-mail in a bulk folder until the recipient has time to decide to accept or reject it. In addition to e-mail spam, which is the most common form of spam, there are also forms of spam that appear on Instant Messenger accounts, newsgroups, blogs and mobile phones.
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