Perhaps every user of a personal computer and the Internet has come across spam at least once. In essence, spam is an advertisement of some goods or services imposed on the user.
Today there are a huge number of types of spam, each of which is used on a separate resource. Spam is a prohibited form of advertising, promotion or promotion of goods and services, but despite this it exists and flourishes. There are several types of spam, these are: mass mailing of emails, spam on social networks, forums and comments on them, instant messaging system.
Bulk email distribution
Most likely, every e-mail owner has noticed at least once that messages come to his address from those resources on which he has never even been registered. It is this type of spam that is the simplest and cheapest. This kind of mailing is carried out without any consent of the user himself. It can be carried out either in manual mode or automatically using special software. It is worth noting that if you have received such a letter in your mail, then it is better not to open it and not download any attachments (if any), since there is a high probability that the attachment will contain malware.
Social media spam
Many people use social media, and as their popularity grows, the volume of spam on such sites has begun to rise. This type of spam is several times more complicated than the previous one, since social sites are internally protected and in case of identification of persons sending such messages, the site blocks them. In this regard, various phishing sites have become popular through which account passwords are intercepted and then spam is posted through the victim's account using personal messages, boards and walls of friends, as well as comrades associated with the victim.
Spam on forums and instant messaging systems
As for the forms, spam is practically not there today, since most messages on such sites are first checked by a moderator, and only then posted. Today spammers can be found in ICQ and other instant messaging systems, although this type of spam is already dying out there. The thing is that such programs began to be provided with improved security systems, in connection with which the protection of such programs has increased several times, and the number of spammers has decreased. Unfortunately, what users of such programs cannot protect themselves from today is social engineering, and it is thanks to it that attackers can obtain the necessary data.
