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  2. Lenny (bot) - Wikipedia

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    The bot was written in 2011, and development taken over by an Alberta-based programmer known as "Mango" two years later. [3] [4] It is driven by sixteen pre-recorded audio clips, spoken in a soft and slow Australian accent in the manner of an elderly man. [3]

  3. Forum spam - Wikipedia

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    Forum spam consists of posts on Internet forums that contains related or unrelated advertisements, links to malicious websites, trolling and abusive or otherwise unwanted information. Forum spam is usually posted onto message boards by automated spambots or manually with unscrupulous intentions with intent to get the spam in front of readers ...

  4. Spambot - Wikipedia

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    A spambot is a computer program designed to assist in the sending of spam.Spambots usually create accounts and send spam messages with them. [1] Web hosts and website operators have responded by banning spammers, leading to an ongoing struggle between them and spammers in which spammers find new ways to evade the bans and anti-spam programs, and hosts counteract these methods.

  5. 'Hope Floats' is a seaborne bot that spams lawmakers with calls

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    On a plain white wall at a large Brooklyn gallery, a seemingly old-fashioned phone booth sits about five feet off the ground. The words "Hope Floats" are painted in white on the black box, which ...

  6. Discord - Wikipedia

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    In September 2021, Google sent cease and desist notices to the developers of two of the most popular music bots used on Discord–Groovy and Rythm–which were used on an estimated 36 million servers in total. [40] These bots allowed users to request and play songs in a voice channel, taking the songs from YouTube ad-free. Two weeks later ...

  7. Spamming - Wikipedia

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    An email inbox containing a large amount of spam messages. Spamming is the use of messaging systems to send multiple unsolicited messages (spam) to large numbers of recipients for the purpose of commercial advertising, non-commercial proselytizing, or any prohibited purpose (especially phishing), or simply repeatedly sending the same message to the same user.

  8. Messaging spam - Wikipedia

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    Messaging spam, sometimes called SPIM, [1] [2] [3] is a type of spam targeting users of instant messaging (IM) services, SMS, or private messages within websites. Instant messaging applications [ edit ]

  9. Bot - Wikipedia

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    Internet bot, a software application that runs automated tasks (scripts) over the Internet Spambot, an internet bot designed to assist in the sending of spam; Internet Relay Chat bot, a set of scripts or an independent program that connects to IRC as a client; Robot, or "bot", a mechanical device that can perform physical tasks