What Is Spamming

Email "spamming and get-rich-scheme" is a situation where an email is sent to hundreds and thousands of addresses. The worse case would be when the email is sent to mailing lists, in which the email is forwarded to hundreds other users. The email can be in the form of chain letters or get-rich-scheme. Most spam is for commercial advertising. The recipients neither request nor expect the email. What makes people annoyed of spamming is because most of the costs are paid for by the recipients. Further reading on spam and unsolicited commercial email can be found here.