Spam is unsolicited, bulk mail sent to user.

Most of them include offers and discount, other request info about you.

This mails are sent most of the time thru fake address, and this mails can arrive to your mailbox by random mix of user names (pete@mail.com, pete1@mail.com p3t3@mail.com) or cuz you registered your mail address in some fake pages.

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