A spam bot is a computer program or a group (package) of computer programs whose main or sole purpose is to automatically send advertising messages - spam .
Automated distribution of prepared advertising messages is carried out by e-mail addresses , instant messaging systems (eg icq ), and other text messaging services.
Real-time e-mail addresses found by the search robot on various forums , message boards , and chat rooms are used as spam email addresses. Also use the automatic creation of email addresses or enumeration of numbers icq.
There are "advanced" spam bots that can send advertising messages on sites [ clarify ] , forums and social networks .