"Spam" or "junk mail" stands for unsolicited, usually commercial email messages. Spam is irrelevant or unsolicited messages generally indiscriminately sent over the Internet, typically to many recipients, for the purposes of, among other things, advertising, phishing and/or spreading malware. "Unsolicited" means that the individual receiving the message has not requested, or granted permission for sending, such message. "Spamming" relates to providing, transferring or sharing unwanted email messages electronically, particularly on a large scale.