What is a spam?

Question

I want to know what a spam is when a site say make free money online?

I mean what happens to you? Do you loose money or something? Or does it just mean you get nothing?

Answer 1

Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising, often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services. Spam costs the sender very little to send -- most of the costs are paid for by the recipient or the carriers rather than by the sender.

There are two main types of spam, and they have different effects on Internet users. Cancellable Usenet spam is a single message sent to 20 or more Usenet newsgroups. (Through long experience, Usenet users have found that any message posted to so many newsgroups is often not relevant to most or all of them.) Usenet spam is aimed at "lurkers", people who read newsgroups but rarely or never post and give their address away. Usenet spam robs users of the utility of the newsgroups by overwhelming them with a barrage of advertising or other irrelevant posts. Furthermore, Usenet spam subverts the ability of system administrators and owners to manage the topics they accept on their systems.

Email spam targets individual users with direct mail messages. Email spam lists are often created by scanning Usenet postings, stealing Internet mailing lists, or searching the Web for addresses. Email spams typically cost users money out-of-pocket to receive. Many people - anyone with measured phone service - read or receive their mail while the meter is running, so to speak. Spam costs them additional money. On top of that, it costs money for ISPs and online services to transmit spam, and these costs are transmitted directly to subscribers.

One particularly nasty variant of email spam is sending spam to mailing lists (public or private email discussion forums.) Because many mailing lists limit activity to their subscribers, spammers will use automated tools to subscribe to as many mailing lists as possible, so that they can grab the lists of addresses, or use the mailing list as a direct target for their attacks.

Answer 2

Any site or email that promises you money for nothing is spam, stay away from it. Think about it, no legit company is going to give you free money, that's just not good business. And if they send you a check and ask you to wire some of it back, don't fall for it, again, no real company does that. And no, you didn't just win a foreign lottery that you didn't sign up for. If you get a check, don't spend it, it is fake.

Answer 3

SPAM is really annoying and makes you crazy. Have you ever felt the disappointment, that you see when you login to your e-mail account that you have new messages, and then you see that they're actually spams? And actually you are waiting for an important message? Well, I receive an average of 15 spams to my e-mail address, I'm lucky that GMail has a really good spam filter, and it makes mistake very rarely. It also floods the Internet. Certainly, there are more spams processed a day by an SMTP server than normal messages. Bad, ugly bastards advertise their stinky products for FREE, by flooding the net and annoying people. Frankly, I would shot them on their heads by a shotgun, one by one.

Answer 4

E-mail Spam is any unwanted solicitation that wastes storage space in your in-box. The chances are 99.999% that the add you are referring to (make free money...) is Spam.

The other kind of Spam is chopped ham with added water and spices, formed into a loaf, and canned in a unique rectangular-cubic-shaped can.
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Answer 5

SPAM mails are those you receive that advertises something, or when you click on this link or when you register on this site you will get gift checks, win a laptop, get a free cruise to somewhere, get a new iPod etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.

delete them, none of them are true. when you open or click on them you either get one or two or all of the following: more spam mails, more pop-ups, spyware, worm viruses, malicious ads.

Answer 6

Spam emails posted here: http://fraudespam.blogspot.com/

Answer 7

It's people. Spam is made of people.

Answer 8

1) Dead Parrot 2) Lumberjack

Answer 9

this is what they call spam mail. 99% of these emails are for sure spam mail.... ignore lt

Answer 10

Spam is useless cr*p you don't want or need.