Dec 11, 2007

Spam emails reached new record

According to Symantec 72 percent of emails were spam in November.

That was because spammers tried to find new working emails using a method that if mail didn't come back, mail address works.

Bill Gates said on 2004 that spam will be defeated within 2 years. Well that's not exactly what has happen.

Amount of spam emails has raised from 56 percent in 2006 to 72 percent in Nov 2007.

Spam tacticts include eg. seasonal spams (Christmas, Thanksgiving etc.), image spams, attachment spams and pump-and-dump spams.

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