Sunday, December 31st 2006
Enourmous increase in the volume of spam e-mail sent
Companies that are low enough to resort to sending out spam e-mails as advertising have recently really been working hard. Thanks to images in spam messages, a surge in botnets (computers that are hijacked by viruses to send out spam emails), a high availability of domains for spammers and underdeveloped spam filters, spammers have managed to increase their spam volume by 35%. This exceeds the expectations of internet analysts, and means that spammed advertisements now represent 90% of all e-mails on the internet.
Source:
Neowin
12 Comments on Enourmous increase in the volume of spam e-mail sent
^that is how most spam is. pretty much every word is misspelled and frankly most people who fall for those scams deserve to. i mean come on, how can you be so stupid...
chris
VIAGRA CIALIS Pr0N 4 Ph4333!!!!!!111!1!!1!!!eleven!!!!one!!!111!111".
actually to counter your "dear sir" thing, i have recived more spam emails that said "dear friend" then "dear sir."
chris