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  2. Email bomb - Wikipedia

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    Email bomb. On Internet usage, an email bomb is a form of net abuse that sends large volumes of email to an address to overflow the mailbox, [1] [2] overwhelm the server where the email address is hosted in a denial-of-service attack [3] or as a smoke screen to distract the attention from important email messages indicating a security breach.

  3. Spam - Wikipedia

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    Spam most often refers to: Spam (food), a canned pork meat product. Spamming, unsolicited or undesired electronic messages. Email spam, unsolicited, undesired, or illegal email messages. Messaging spam, spam targeting users of instant messaging (IM) services, SMS or private messages within websites.

  4. CAPTCHA - Wikipedia

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    Purpose. CAPTCHAs' purpose is to prevent spam on websites, such as promotion spam, registration spam, and data scraping, and bots are less likely to abuse websites with spamming if those websites use CAPTCHA. Many websites use CAPTCHA effectively to prevent bot raiding. CAPTCHAs are designed so that humans can complete them, while most robots ...

  5. Use AOL Official Mail to confirm legitimate AOL emails

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    When we send you important emails, we'll mark the message with a small AOL icon beside the sender name. When you open the message, you'll see the "Official Mail" banner above the details of the message. If you get a message that seems like it's from AOL, but it doesn't have those 2 indicators, and it isn't alternatively marked as AOL Certified ...

  6. Social spam - Wikipedia

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    Social spam is unwanted spam content appearing on social networking services, social bookmarking sites, and any website with user-generated content (comments, chat, etc.). It can be manifested in many ways, including bulk messages, profanity, insults, hate speech, malicious links, fraudulent reviews, fake friends, and personally identifiable information.

  7. Spam reporting - Wikipedia

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    Spam reporting. Spam reporting, more properly called abuse reporting, is the action of designating electronic messages as abusive for reporting to an authority (e.g. an email administrator) so that they can be dealt with. Reported messages can be email messages, blog comments, or any kind of spam .

  8. Block and unblock email addresses in AOL Mail - AOL Help

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    Block email addresses. 1. Open an email or select it from your mailbox. 2. Click the More icon. 2. Click Block Senders. 2. Optionally, select to also delete emails you've received from the sender.

  9. 4chan - Wikipedia

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    4chan Homepage on May 3, 2023 Type of site Imageboard Available in English Owner Hiroyuki Nishimura Created by Christopher Poole URL 4chan.org Commercial Yes Registration None available (except for staff) Launched October 1, 2003 ; 20 years ago (2003-10-01) 4chan is an anonymous English-language imageboard website. Launched by Christopher "moot" Poole in October 2003, the site hosts boards ...