Referrer spam, also known as referer spam or referral spam, is a type of web spam where malicious bots or automated scripts generate fake traffic to a website by sending requests that include falsified HTTP referrer headers. This results in the target website's analytics tools showing data that includes the spammer's site as a referrer, which can distort traffic statistics and mislead webmasters about where their traffic is coming from.
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