Scambot

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A bot that promotes a scam.

    "‘It was more than an annoyingly persistent scambot,’ he said. ‘That was just a cover for a piece of code set up to send chunks of our code to some cleverly munged I.P. address.’"

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"‘It was more than an annoyingly persistent scambot,’ he said. ‘That was just a cover for a piece of code set up to send chunks of our code to some cleverly munged I.P. address.’"

Etymology

From scam + -bot.

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