Email Bombing /Mail Bombs
This kind of activity refers to sending large numbers of
mail to victim, which may be an individual or a company or even mail server,
there by ultimately resulting into crashing. Email bombing is
characterized by abusers repeatedly
sending an email message to a particular address at a specific victim site .In
many instance, the massage will be large and constructed from meaningless data
in an effort to consume additional system and network resources.
E-mail "bomb" refers to the large number of email messages sent to an account with the primary aim of bringing the account down. When an email server is flooded with email messages, it is unable to receive other email messages and effectively becomes useless.An account that receives an email bomb will also experience an interruption in the transfer and processing of legitimate mail, as well.Email bombs are particularly dangerous as even if an email server is brought down to stave off the problem, the email bombardment will continue where it left off when the server is restarted.Another type of bombing occurs when a user signs someone for multiple newsletter services and other automatic email generation services that can bring a person's inbox to its knees.The only way to recover from an email bomb is probably to contact your Internet service provider for help. It may be necessary for you to disable or change your email address, at least temporarily.
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