Mass mailer attack

This might be another name for the common phishing attack. It is an exploit used to send out lots of emails to many recipients with hopes that some people will click on them. The attacker is given an option to customize the messages in several templates that can be sent to users. The problem with this is that it is a blind attack where the target is not well-known. There is also the concern that after several users mark the emails as spam, email providers will mark the messages to other targets as spam too. In this day and age, it is inadvisable to do a phishing attack. Therefore, this module is not as highly used today as it was a few years back. For this reason, we shall not get into it.

To wrap up SET, it is a compact ...

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