Dictionary.com defines Spamming as:
noun
the sending of multiple unsolicited emails or text messages, usually for marketing purposes
Spamming is annoying and fills up your email box, which is why most email services have a Junk or Spam folder nowadays. Personally, at Koutz Farm, one of our personal email accounts gets over 13,000 emails a day and 99.9% of those are spam emails. It is almost impossible to even browse that account because you will end up wasting hours of your day cleaning up emails just to do it again the next day. At some point, it might just be better to delete that account and start a new one, but we’ve had that account for over 10 years now and we haven’t jumped ship just yet.
Spamming may be typically used for marketing purposes, but it can also be part of a phishing scam to get your information or worse, could have a virus or other nefarious code stashed away inside just waiting for a click so it can wreak havoc on your computer system. Be very cautious of opening email from unknown sources and even then, know that scammers can duplicate the look and feel of brands you know and trust, so look at every email you open with a fine-toothed comb before you click on any links inside them. Learn more about Phishing scams by checking out our blog posts.
Other similar terms are “Mailbombing”, “Overloading” and “Flooding”. These usually have a more sinister intent, to quickly flood a system with so many emails (often including large file attachments) with the intent to crash a server or networking system.
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