Spamming is a
Spamming is a Unethical Technique
Spam is electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. ... However, if a long-lost brother finds your email address and sends you a message, this could hardly be called spam, even though it is unsolicited. Real spam is generally email advertising for some product sent to a mailing list or newsgroup.
The term "spam" is internet slang that refers to unsolicited commercial email (UCE) or unsolicited bulk email (UBE). Some people refer to this kind of communication as junk email to equate it with the paper junk mail that comes through the US Mail.
Spam is not illegal. I was recently taken to task for claiming that unsolicited bulk email was spam. Spam is illegal and Spammers are criminal. ... Violating CAN SPAM is illegal and may result in civil or criminal penalties.
In crime. Spam can be used to spread computer viruses, trojan horses or other malicious software. ... Described as one of the top ten spammers in the world, Soloway was charged with 35 criminal counts, including mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering.