Categories: Spamming | Search engine optimization Spamming is the abuse of any electronic communications medium to send unsolicited messages to someone in bulk. ... Link spam (also called blog spam or comment spam) is a form of spamming or spamdexing that recently became publicized most often when targeting weblogs (or blogs), but also affects wikis (where it is often called wikispam), guestbooks, and online discussion boards. ... A typical spam advertisement Spam by e-mail is a type of spam that involves sending identical (or nearly identical) messages to thousands (or millions) of recipients. ... Flyposting is the act of putting advertising posters or flyers in illegal places. ... Messaging spam, sometimes called SPIM, is a type of spam where the target is instant messaging services. ... Mobile phone spam is a form of spamming directed at the text messaging service of a mobile phone. ... Newsgroup spam is a type of spamming where the targets are Usenet newsgroups. ... Spamdexing or search engine spamming is the practice of deliberately and dishonestly manipulating search engines to increase the chance of a website or page being placed close to the beginning of search engine results, or to influence the category to which the page is assigned in a dishonest manner. ... SPIT (Spam Over Internet Telephony) is the VoIP equivalent of unsolicited email — unwanted messages clogging up your voice mail box. ... It has been suggested that Cold Calling be merged into this article or section. ... Advance fee fraud, often also known as the Nigerian money transfer fraud, Nigerian scam or 419 scam after the relevant section of the Nigerian Criminal Code that it violates, is a fraudulent scheme to extract money from victims after making them believe they will get an immense fortune. ... A lottery scam is a scam email that tells the recipient they have won a sum of money in the lottery. ... Make money fast was a title of an electronically forwarded chain letter which became so famous that the term is now used to describe all sorts of chain letters forwarded over the Internet, by e-mail spam or Usenet newsgroups. ... This phishing attempt, disguised as an official email from a bank, attempts to trick the banks members into giving away their account information by confirming it at the phishers linked website. ... Although spamming has existed on the Internet since as early as 1978, the first major spamming incidents didnt take place until the early 1990s. ... A DNS-based Blackhole List, or DNSBL, is a means by which an Internet site may publish a list of IP addresses, in a format which can be easily queried by computer programs on the Internet. ... E-mail has become the subject of much abuse, in the form of both spamming and E-mail worm programs. ...