Sunday, December 16th 2007
Symantec Concludes That 72% of All E-Mail Sent in November Was Spam
In the continuing war against spam, Symantec files reports on how the anti-spam industry is doing every month. Symantec concluded that, in November, 72% of all messages sent to people was spam. Symantec cited "Thanksgiving holiday captions in subject lines, advertisements of replica products, mass e-mail address collection using an animated snowball .gif image, "free" gift-cards from well-known companies, and seasonal lotto scams" for the high amount of spam last month. As anti-spam software/filters get bigger, better, and more advanced, Symantec hopes to watch this figure go down. You can read the full "State of Spam" report here.
Source:
Neowin
17 Comments on Symantec Concludes That 72% of All E-Mail Sent in November Was Spam
yep. true.
I wouoldnt mind a free gift card from a well known company from like say Best Buy for Instance.:):)
One thing I like about gmail, though, is that you can tag your email address if you register somewhere in such a way that you can actually see what sites have whored out your email address. You wouldn't believe how many deceitful online stores there are!
DAMN!
Perhaps 72% of all email RECEIVED was spam. That's probably true.
But sent? No way. Much higher than that. Email spam filters both on client and at server level catch so much junk. I'm sure that without any filtering, spam would represent 90%+ of all email sent.
Unless, Symantec is refering to amount of DATA sent, rather than the COUNT of emails. Since most spam is relatively small, compared to real email with attachments.
I have a gmail account as well that gets 0 spam, but that's mainly because it's not listed anywhere that can be phished by trolling software.