Spam - Spamming - Spammer

Have you received unsolicited advertising by e-mail, fax, SMS or from automatic calling equipment? Has someone asked you for confidential information by e-mail? Then you are a victim of spamming. Mass sending of advertising without the recipient's consent is banned. You can limit spamming by following a few simple rules and exercising caution.

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As the internet has grown, so has spam. The term "spam" comes from the "Spam" brand of canned meat marketed in England and the USA. It appears in a sketch by the famous Monty Python comedy group: a waiter in a restaurant wants to sell Spam whenever he takes an order. When a visitor to the restaurant asks for a different dish, a chorus of Vikings sings the refrain "Spam, Spam, Spam" so loudly and for so long that the customer's protests are drowned by the noise...

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Last modification 29.06.2011

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