scambot
scambot noun: a bot that promotes a scam.
Noun
scambot (plural scambots)
- A bot that promotes a scam.
- ‘It was more than an annoyingly persistent scambot,’ he said. ‘That was just a cover for a piece of code set up to send chunks of our code to some cleverly munged I.P. address.’2010, Ken MacLeod, The Restoration Game, London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 67
- Just lads, they’d got hold of his phone, lads we were at school with. Saying he had an imaginary girlfriend, she was one of those Russian scambots, you know, wants money, they get your mobile number from somewhere and try to get pin numbers or whatever.2017, Christobel Kent, The Day She Disappeared, London: Sphere, →ISBN, page 127
Forms of scambot
| plural | scambots |
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Origin of scambot
From scam + -bot.
Questions about scambot
- What does scambot mean?
- Scambot means a bot that promotes a scam.
- What part of speech is scambot?
- Scambot is a noun.
- What is the plural of scambot?
- The plural of scambot is scambots.
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