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Electronic spam refers to unsolicited bulk messages, typically emails, that clutter inboxes and waste users' time. It matters because spam can reduce productivity, spread malware or scams, and consume computing resources.
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thumb|An email inbox containing a large amount of spam messages
Spamming is the use of messaging systems to send multiple unsolicited messages (spam) to large numbers of recipients for the purpose of commercial advertising, non-commercial proselytizing, or any prohibited purpose (especially phishing). It can also be repeatedly sending the same message to the same user. The most widely recognized form of spam is email spam.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).