Last article relating to my project on Global internet issues.
Spam, no matter where you are accessing the internet from spam can flood your email, can pop up on your screen and damange your computer. In this article I learn that Spam is many copies of the same message, in aattempt to force the message on people who do not want it. Lots of these messages are schemes that you should not believe. There are two main types of spam and they both effect the recievers differntly Cancellable Usenet spam, is a single mesage sent to 20 or more people. Email spam targets indidvudal users with direct mail messages, either way spammers find your email address from internet mailing lists, websites amoung other things. Many people use two email addresses and only sign up for things online with one address to prevent getting spam on both accounts.
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