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Identifying spam:

Social Spam- In society today we can consider any spam as unwanted content or requests. For example content from an unusual email account or fake profiles are considered junk mail. Spamming began when web browsing and social media apps began to be our main source for entertainment, news, and communication. Spamming has been around for decades and will continue to expand as long as the internet is around. Social spamming goes all the way back to 1978 when the first reported case of spam email was sent by Gary Thuerk advertising a new model of digital equipment corporations of computers that circulated to over 400 ARPANET users. . While that was just the beginning of a chain-link reaction spamming soon enough lead to more than just emails, as it progressed into different types and categories of junk. For example, Pyramid schemes, cyberbullying, click-baiting, cybercriminals, etc. Spamming has led to multiple issues in people's lives from identity theft to fraudulent transactions by multiple money seeking operations. Spamming has changed lives, some for the good and some for the worst. Since then the number of spamming emails, websites, and fake profiles only began to rise considering the success for the scammer's, things only went downhill from there. In recent studies it shows that spammers could make up to $10,000 to $15,000 a week by sending out millions of messages on behalf of online merchants who want to sell a product, the spammer receives a percentage of the sale if purchased by the spam recipient. . There are a variety of ways and procedures we as society can take to determine whether something is there to scam you or not, as certain organizations and groups of  begins to upgrade charts and certain spammer detections have been created.