What is Spam and How To Prevent | Enterprise Security Magazine

Jack Mathew
2 min readDec 18, 2020
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What is Spam ?

Technology has developed at a rapid pace. Along with the good comes bad there is always people who are trying to misuse the technology for spamming the inbox messages.

Spam refers to sending of bulk messages through email, instant messaging or any other digital communication tools.

Types Of Spam

  1. Email Spam

2. Messaging Spam

3. Forum Spam

How To Avoid Spam?

There isn’t much you can do with spam messages. The best option is to ignore the spam messages, If you reply it is going to know your an active user and you may get more of those.

There are technologies like spam filter which is available for free as well as paid version. That will block all the spam related mails or messages from email.

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