Apr 21 2008
Sources of Spam
Some information and statistics about spam:
A new study indicates that 92% of all email sent in the first quarter of 2008 was spam.
4.6% of all spam originates from web based email services such as Gmail and Yahoo. With Yahoo the most abused web mail service and is responsible for 86.7% of web mail based spam sent (according to MessageLabs).
Spam from Gmail increased from 1.3 percent in January to 2.6 percent in February, with most advertising skin flick websites.
The rest of the spam is a from made-up or hacked domains.
Subject matters include:
* Online Pharmacies (vast majority at about 50%)
* Replica Products
* Casino and Gaming
* Software Sales
* Illegal Advertising
* Credit and Debt Relief
* Bank Phishing
* Job Offers
* Free Offers
(according to Barracuda Central)
The US has maintained is first place in relaying the world’s spam email, in Q1 2008.
Other countries like China, Turkey and Russia fight for the next three spots.
So, there is a general look at spam for this last week, exciting in nerdy sort of way and scary in other ways. Don’t see much change other than it getting worse while companies like ours continue to work to prevent the spam from ever reaching your box.
Original article on IDT Blog about email spam
