Spam is a computer term with which all junk content is known, not necessarily malicious (malware container) but that can be presented in our email or instant messaging accounts, even content can reach our phone via SMS that it is considered "garbage". Spam had its origins in e-mail trays and information searches on portals such as blogs. Its advertising value allowed more than one naive to fall into its traps. Spam content, generally deceives the user with a false message promising content but actually offering a different product or service that in some cases can damage our computer.
With the advent of social networks, Spam qualified as an advertising agent par excellence, forcing users who do not recognize this type of publication to subscribe to social network accounts that are not wanted or viewing unnecessary content to reach the final goal that it usually does not meet the expectation of the viewer. Spam is used by many to generate offers and discounts on the network, automated programs randomly choose a large group of email accounts obtained from any database and constantly send unwanted information to the trays, thus generating a quantity of spam. that can even make it difficult to find an email that does want to be seen.
Today, with the advent of new antivirus and anti-spam technologies, email clients have shielded their user accounts with mechanisms that bypass or at least notify that the unknown email being received is from an unknown sender and that Due to the content format, it may be undesirable spam type content. Many emails and social networks incorporate folders into which, after spam has been identified, it goes directly to where it is stored with security measures and subsequently eliminated without even the customer or user noticing. However, spam is still an effective advertising technique, where a minimal percentage of users follow the unknown route of a spam despite any alert that the system places.
