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E-Mail Harvesting

Vangie Beal
Last Updated May 24, 2021 7:41 am

An automated process where a bot is used to search Web pages for e-mail addresses. The e-mail addressees are collected into a database that can be used by spammers to send unsolicited e-mail.

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