Email bomb

On Internet usage, an email bomb is a form of net abuse that sends large volumes of email to an address to overflow the mailbox, overwhelm the server where the email address is hosted in a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or as a smoke screen to distract the attention from important email messages indicating a security breach.

This article is about denial-of-service attacks. For spikes of "reply all" messages on an email distribution list, see email storm.
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