Email "Spamming" and Email "Spoofing"

Author: London School of Economics Published April 4, 2011 from London School of Economics

Email "spamming" refers to sending email to thousands and thousands of users - similar to a chain letter. Spamming is often done deliberately to use network resources. Email spamming may be combined with email spoofing, so that it is very difficult to determine the actual originating email address of the sender.