The term Backscatter describes an unwanted effect related to spam emails which involves the email server to generate error emails as a consequence of the failed attempt to send spam emails with addresses of unaware users due to a hacked situation. The most common case is to receive error message like "can't deliver the message..", even if the user hasn't purposely sent the email.
Backscatter
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Lorenzo Bedin
Lorenzo graduated in Telecommunication Engineering and works as freelance IT consultant, after a period of training as systems analyst. Currently he provides hardware solutions, virtualized infrastructures and websites.