On Internet usage, an email bomb is a form of network abuse that sends large volumes of email to an address to overflow the mailbox, overwhelm the server where the email address is hosted in a denial-of-service attack or as a smoke screen to distract the attention from important email messages indicating a security breach. == Methods == There are three methods of perpetrating an email bomb, namely mass mailing, list linking and zip bombing.
On Internet usage, an email bomb is a form of network abuse that sends large volumes of email to an address to overflow the mailbox, overwhelm the server where the email address is hosted in a denial-of-service attack or as a smoke screen to distract the attention from important email messages indicating a security breach. == Methods == There are three methods of perpetrating an email bomb, namely mass mailing, list linking and zip bombing.
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