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What is Spam?
The term "spam" is Internet slang that refers to unsolicited
commercial email (UCE) or unsolicited bulk email (UBE). Some people
refer to this kind of communication as junk email to equate it with the
paper junk mail that comes through the US Mail. Unsolicited email is
email that you did not request; it most often contains advertisements
for services or products. There are very few reputable marketers using
UCE to advertise goods and services. The most commonly seen spam
includes the following:
- Foreign bank scams or advance fee fraud schemes
- Pyramid schemes, including multilevel marketing (MLM)
- Other "Get Rich Quick" or "Make Money Fast" (MMF) schemes
- Quack health products and remedies
- Ads for pornographic Web sites
- Offers of software for collecting email addresses and sending UCE
- Offers of bulk emailing services for sending UCE
- Chain letters
- Illegally pirated software ("Warez")
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