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  2. Messaging spam - Wikipedia

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    Messaging spam on Telegram. Instant messaging systems, such as Telegram, WhatsApp, Twitter Direct Messaging, Kik, Skype and Snapchat are all targets for spammers. [4] Many IM services are publicly linked to social media platforms, which may include information on the user such as age, sex, location and interests.

  3. IDN homograph attack - Wikipedia

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    An example of an IDN homograph attack; the Latin letters "e" and "a" are replaced with the Cyrillic letters "е" and "а".The internationalized domain name (IDN) homograph attack (sometimes written as homoglyph attack) is a method used by malicious parties to deceive computer users about what remote system they are communicating with, by exploiting the fact that many different characters look ...

  4. 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.

  5. WhatsApp says a global spyware campaign targeted journalists

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    Around 90 users of Meta’s chat service WhatsApp are suspected to have been targets of a spyware campaign conducted by Paragon Solutions. ... “They can access your encrypted messages, your ...

  6. Social spam - Wikipedia

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    As email spam filters became more effective, catching over 95% of these messages, spammers have moved to a new target – the social web. [3] Over 90% of social network users have experienced social spam in some form. [4] Those doing the “spamming” can be automated spambots/social bots, fake accounts, or real people. [5]

  7. Metasyntactic variable - Wikipedia

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    Spam, ham, and eggs are the principal metasyntactic variables used in the Python programming language. [10] This is a reference to the famous comedy sketch, "Spam", by Monty Python, the eponym of the language. [11] In the following example spam, ham, and eggs are metasyntactic variables and lines beginning with # are comments.

  8. Manage spam in AOL Mail

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    While 99.9% of spam, malware and phishing emails are being caught by our spam filters, occasionally some can slip through. When this happens, it's very important to mark the email as spam, then our system will learn that messages from a specific sender aren't good and helps us make AOL Mail even better at recognizing future spam emails.

  9. Naive Bayes spam filtering - Wikipedia

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    Naive Bayes spam filtering is a baseline technique for dealing with spam that can tailor itself to the email needs of individual users and give low false positive spam detection rates that are generally acceptable to users. It is one of the oldest ways of doing spam filtering, with roots in the 1990s.