Email Harvesting

Email Harvesting definition - hacker
An automated process whereby a robot program searches Web pages or Internet destinations for email addresses and collects the addresses into a database. These collections can be sold to spammers or unethical bulk mailers to enable them to send their materials to unsuspecting targets. Many U.S. state laws now forbid email harvesting, and the CANSPAM Act was passed in the United States in 2003.

See Also: CAN-SPAM Act of 2003; Internet; Spam; Spammers; Spamming/Scrolling.

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Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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