I imagine "spammer" here is not an email spammer, but either e.g. a comments spammer (a bot trying to post links in comment forms to game google), or a generali

I imagine "spammer" here is not an email spammer, but either e.g. a comments spammer (a bot trying to post links in comment forms to game google), or a generalized thought shortcut meaning something like "a bot/botnet crawling a website for nefarious purposes in a high-traffic way with abusive disregard for the site's computational and bandwidth resources".