Unsolicited Email Message

A Unsolicited Email Message is an email message that is an unsolicited message sent by spam emailers.

• Context:
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• Example(s):
  • a Spam Email from a company that purchased an email address list.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Junk Mail.
  • Socially Engineered Email Attack.
  • Junk SMS.
  • …
• See: Inappropriate Content, Spam Filtering, Electronic Spam, Email Attachment, HTML Email, Security Vulnerability, Phishing, Malware.

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References

2018

• https://www.spamhaus.org/consumer/definition/
  • QUOTE: Unsolicited means that the Recipient has not granted verifiable permission for the message to be sent. Bulk means that the message is sent as part of a larger collection of messages, all having substantively identical content.

    A message is Spam only if it is both Unsolicited and Bulk.

    • Unsolicited Email is normal email
      (examples: first contact enquiries, job enquiries, sales enquiries)
    • Bulk Email is normal email
      (examples: subscriber newsletters, customer communications, discussion lists)

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