Often starting as a prank, SMS bombing can go beyond prank status and intocybercrime— especially if it’s used as acyberbulling technique. Built-in spam filters and third-party spam blockers can help stop SMS
In a twist of cruel fate, or a terrible prank gone wrong, I’ve been suffering under the weight of 1000s of spam messages from conservatives a week. I’m a solidly blue voter, so this is not only annoying, but infuriating. They all call me “Fred” too (not my name). I’ve bee...
Tricked into spamming (you ever reply to those messages about a kid with cancer who wants an e-mail before he dies? Well, most likely you fell for a spam prank to mail bomb someone) Mail bomb (attack someone) Hate Love (spam for love? anything’s possible when you’re in love! :-...
Blizzard referenced this in an April Fool's Day prank; one of the items on the menu of their fictional upcoming chain of restaurants, "Burgercraft" was "Moonfire Spam". [7] History Main article: History of spamming The term spam is derived from the Monty Python SPAM sketch (see video...
In this case it was a particularly bad and widespread prank, one that left thousands and thousands of concerned citizens attempting to verify the status of a missing girl who wasn’t really missing. And that’s what makes this forward particularly nasty. People were worried about this girl. ...
In a twist of cruel fate, or a terrible prank gone wrong, I’ve been suffering under the weight of 1000s of spam messages from conservatives a week. I’m a solidly blue voter, so this is not only annoying, but infuriating. They all call me “Fred” too (not my name). I’ve bee...