noun

• A person or organization that sends irrelevant or unsolicited messages over the internet, typically to large numbers of users, for the purposes of advertising, phishing, spreading malware, etc.

  ‘common traps that spammers use to acquire email addresses’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Authored by a former spammer, this is a methodical, technically explicit exposé of the inner workings of the SPAM economy.’
  • ‘With its rising popularity as a microblogging website, it has inevitably attracted the attention of spammers.’
  • ‘Not all spammers use bulk emailing services or botnets to mask their identity.’
  • ‘The spammer may simply use automated processes to generate random public keys once in possession of an organization's email format.’
  • ‘Being followed by a spammer is a kind of unwanted attention.’