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What does spam or scam mean?

Updated: 9/20/2023
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A scam simply means that someone is decieving you for his or her own good, in other words it means that people are tricking you for what you have. Spam is a repetitive post or say if someome was sending you a ton of mail in a very short amount of time, that is an example of spam.

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