Spamming is a word we all know and an activity we all loathe – it’s when crooks blast out unwanted emails for products we don’t want at a price we won’t pay from from suppliers we’ll never trust. And the word spam has given us related terms such as SPIM for spam via instant messaging; SPIT for spam via internet telephony – robocalls and fake tech support scams, for example; and SPEWS, which is our tongue-in-cheek name for spam via electronic web submissions.

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