Flashcards on Introduction to Cybercrime Law
Introduction to Cybercrime Law: Key Concepts & Frameworks
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Spam & Unwanted Communications
30 cards
Card 1
Question: What are the defining characteristics of spam messages?
Answer: Messages sent electronically, in bulk, and especially without request (unsolicited).
Card 2
Question: List the communication channels commonly used to send spam.
Answer: E-mail; instant messengers (ICQ, Skype, etc.); SMS and MMS; discussion forums, blogs, social networks; gaming platforms.
Card 3
Question: Name types of informational content that spam can contain.
Answer: Commercial/advertising; health and medicine; financial; pornographic; educational; hoax (chain letters); political; religious; criminal (e.g., malware
Card 4
Question: Give examples of health-related spam content.
Answer: Offers for weight-loss products, cosmetics, non-traditional medicine, or medicines not available in the region.
Card 5
Question: What falls under financial spam?
Answer: Offers of various loans, promises of extra income, and other finance-related solicitations.
Card 6
Question: How can pornographic spam present itself?
Answer: Offers of pharmaceuticals to increase sexual potency or links to sites with pornographic content.
Card 7
Question: What is hoax spam?
Answer: Chain letters and similar deceptive or misleading mass messages.
Card 8
Question: What does the 'criminal' category of spam include?
Answer: Messages containing malware or links to websites hosting malicious code.
Card 9
Question: How prevalent was spam in email around the mid-2000s according to cited statistics?
Answer: Very high — some sources suggested more than 90% of email could be spam; example: in 2006 an average of 14.5 billion spam messages were sent per day.
Card 10
Question: What effect did technical measures by ISPs have on spam received by users?
Answer: They reduced the number of spam messages that individual users actually receive.