spam bots
Unwanted automated messengers
Spam bots are automated programs designed to send unsolicited messages in bulk—flooding email inboxes, comment sections, and social media with advertisements, scams, or malicious links.
They exploit any platform that accepts user input: The comment section was overrun by spam bots posting crypto schemes.
Website owners deploy CAPTCHAs and other filters specifically to block them.
- automatedOperating without human control
- junkWorthless discarded items
- phishingFraudulent credential harvesting
- malwareHarmful computer programs
- filtersSelective passage barriers
trolls · fake followers · reply guys · comments · links · scammers · crawlers · inbox · unwanted · scripts · harvesting · blocking · flagged · moderation · emails · email blast · junk mail · clickbait
- digital annoyancespop-ups, ads, malware, viruses, buffering
- botschatbot, chatbots, botnets, botnet, fake followers
- online fraudclick fraud, fake clicks, fake followers, botnets, click farms
- online manipulationastroturfing, disinformation, fake news, misinformation, sock puppets
- web spamcloaking, hidden text, content farms, scraping