* e-mail bomb is a form of net abuse consisting of sending huge volumes of e-mail to an address in an attempt to overflow the mailbox or overwhelm the server where the email address is hosted in a denial of service attack.
There are two types are there,
1) Mass mailing
2) list linking
MASS MAILING :
Mass mailing consists of sending numerous duplicate mails to the same email address.
LIST LINKING :
List linking means signing a particular email address up to several email list subscriptions. The victim then has to unsubscribe from these unwanted services manually.
No comments:
Post a Comment