Email bomb
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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,[1][2] overwhelm the server where the email address is hosted in a denial-of-service attack[3] or as a smoke screen to distract the attention from important email messages indicating a security breach.[4]
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This article is about denial-of-service attacks. For spikes of "reply all" messages on an email distribution list, see email storm.