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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Unsolicited electronic messages, especially advertising is know as?
A
Spim
B
Spam
C
Ransomware
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Email spam, also known as unsolicited bulk email (UBE), or junk mail, is the practice of sending unwanted email messages, frequently with commercial content, in large quantities. Spam in email started to become a problem when the Internet was opened for commercial use in the mid-1990s.

Detailed explanation-2: -Email spam, also known as junk email, refers to unsolicited email messages, usually sent in bulk to a large list of recipients.

Detailed explanation-3: -The word “Spam” as applied to Email means “Unsolicited Bulk Email". Unsolicited means that the Recipient has not granted verifiable permission for the message to be sent. Bulk means that the message is sent as part of a larger collection of messages, all having substantively identical content.

Detailed explanation-4: -Spam is any form of unrequested communication sent in bulk (Unsolicited Bulk Email, or UBE). Its most frequent form is a commercial email sent to a large number of addresses (Unsolicited Commercial Email, or UCE), but “spamming” is also possible via instant messages, texts (SMS), social media or even voicemail.

Detailed explanation-5: -It stands for ‘spiced ham’ and was a name suggested in a competition launched by the Geo. A. Hormel Company in 1937, to find a name for their new product, which they described as ‘The Miracle Meat’, and marketed as a health food.

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