Spammer in a sentence

Farkback said that it was an automated anti-spam function and my IP had crossed paths with one used by a spammer.

You probably don’t want every rando/spammer who tries to email you to know your travel plans, so Google says that the Gmail/Hangouts heads-up functionality will only work with G Suite users that have already been granted access to your calendar.

Except that this week, on 30 May 2018, SpamCannibal came back from the dead and started sending “block this” replies to spam queries sent to it, essentially reporting that everyone in the world was a spammer.

Ignore the latter, because nobody likes an invite-spammer.

Also, site administrators who notice the referrer log entries in their logs may follow the link back to the spammer's referrer page.

A spammer may create multiple web sites at different domain names that all link to each other, such as fake blogs (known as spam blogs ).

Finally, new spammers go into business every day, and the low costs allow a single spammer to do a lot of harm before finally realizing that the business is not profitable.

General costs In all cases listed above, including both commercial and non-commercial, "spam happens" because of a positive cost-benefit analysis result; if the cost to recipients is excluded as an externality the spammer can avoid paying.

In 2003, this type of spam took advantage of the open nature of comments in the blogging software Movable Type by repeatedly placing comments to various blog posts that provided nothing more than a link to the spammer's commercial web site.

In 2004, the seized Porsche of an indicted spammer was advertised on the Internet; citation this revealed the extent of the financial rewards available to those who are willing to commit duplicitous acts online.

Many modern worms install a backdoor that allows the spammer to access the computer and use it for malicious purposes.

Since some Web search engines base the importance of sites on the number of different sites linking to them, referrer-log spam may increase the search engine rankings of the spammer's sites.

The spammer uses the open editability of wiki systems to place links from the wiki site to the spam site.

This is generally easier for the spammer as VoIP services are cheap and easy to anonymize over the Internet, and there are many options for sending mass amounts of calls from a single location.

User list exposure In 2003, Jason Smathers, an AOL employee, was convicted of stealing America Online's 92 million screen names and selling them to a known spammer.