The porn spam is a plague that arrived with the rise of the Internet. It generally comes trough unsolicited pornographic e-mail messages, even if the person that received the spam porn had never accessed any type of porn sites and don’t know how they have been put on such a mailing list. Worst of all, in the same way some people receive spam porn, kids are bombarded with this type of content in their e-mails. The porn spammers constantly send links in order to get a higher search engine ranking for their sites, which usually sell some commercial product, like pornography.

            It’s difficult to find the real people that sent the spam porn, because they frequently engage in deliberate fraud to send out their messages, by creating false names, addresses, phone numbers, and other contact information. A common practice to send spam porn is the use of falsified or stolen credit card numbers to pay for the e-mail accounts, from which they send the porn spam. It allows them to move quickly from one account to the next before their host be discovered. They also create accounts on free e-mail services, having many different accounts and using web bots to automate the creation of these accounts.

            The porn spammers often find addresses of Usenet postings or from web pages, public forums, databases, or simply guess them by using common names and domains. To stop the spam porn, people can identify the e-mail sender and tell it to the system administrator. Sending spam porn violates the Acceptable Use Policy of almost all Internet Service Providers, and can lead to the termination of the sender's account. People also can consider just giving their e-mail to closely trusted acquaintances, friends and relatives, and using web based e-mail services for everyone else.

            If the person received spam porn, s/he can’t reply to the sender or follow any "removal instructions" that can come with the spam porn, because it just confirms that the e-mail is valid and is working, what makes the porn spammer sell the address to other porn spammers. People should use anti-virus and anti-spyware to avoid having their computers hijacked and used as spammer tools. Getting a filtered Internet Service Provider also can be useful. It blocks the porn Web sites that the porn spam messages link to. However, they don't block the porn spam itself.