While the question remains whether accurate detection of spam calls can be done, Google says the move was taken to ensure that the company plays its part in protecting Pixel users.

Globe Telecom's anti-spam campaign started in 2014 following numerous customer complaints on proliferation of spam and scam messages as SMS remains the country's most reliable form of mobile messaging channel.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the study found that the more active a user was on Facebook the less likely they were to click on spam , although the link was weak.

Nearly one-in-four spam calls in Brazil-24 percent- come from debt collectors attempting to solicit money from the recipient.

Their wedding ceremony was witnessed by their daughters Milly, five, and Evie, four, who were bridesmaids, but also created a stir with visitors, as the Spam Museum remained open during the hourlong ceremony, which was officiated by Spaminister Jaynee D Sherman, senior brand manager at Hormel Foods Corporation.

-If it is an active spam bot, it gets a blank page, if it is a visitor then it gets a site page.

"It's such an iconic brand and I've grown up eating Spam every day since a very early age.

The report states that traditionally, spam contained ads for counterfeit or fake products but now it also contains disruptive rumors and political information.

As this 1959 ad from Reader's Digest shows, the trick was distancing Spam from its meat-in-a-can image and casting it as dinner.

In Chapter 4, spam mail analysis that utilizes text mining is explained in detail.