Example Sentences

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When a phone call from an unidentified number turned up on Carribean Fragoza’s cell, she immediately assumed it was a spammer and didn’t pick up.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2023

Doing so won’t have an immediate impact on your life — that spammer has already moved on — but it does give your email provider more information to try to stay ahead of them.

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2022

We think it’s okay for you to report a spammer.

From The Verge • Sep. 13, 2021

Is realizing your date is a spammer a good-enough reason to call off a blooming relationship that’s great in all other ways?

From Slate • Aug. 15, 2020

When the spammer tries to mailbomb it, his mailer will get stuck.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.