Study: The Internet's spam problem is getting worse

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"A study finds that only one out of every 20 e-mails is from a legitimate source, and business professionals now rate it the top form of junk advertising."

"Barracuda Networks found that nearly 95 percent of all e-mail sent today is spam. This is up from just five percent of all e-mail in 2001, and 85 to 90 percent of e-mail in 2006.

The company's study found that 65 percent of respondents receive 10 or fewer spams per day, and half receive five or fewer. A little more than one in ten respondents reported receiving as many as 50 or more unsolicited messages daily.
In 2007, spammers seemed to favor the use of attachments, a change from last year where inline image and botnet spam seemed to be popular. Additionally, techniques used by spammers have become more complex, which make them harder to stop and harder to track."

:source: Source: Full Article @ BetaNews

Thats why I have different e-mail accounts. My spam accounts and my regular accounts. Although the whole thing with g-mail kinda sucked the other day.

Gmail ftw

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Originally Posted by Aaxel21

Although the whole thing with g-mail kinda sucked the other day.

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:eyebrows: What?

even i got lot of spam in gmail but its filter is good enough to put in spam folder

Gmail is good only if u give ur email only to ur relative so u stay safe from spam.

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Originally Posted by Ac3Dunk

Gmail is good only if u give ur email only to ur relative so u stay safe from spam.

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gmail is great, doesn't matter who you give it to, i get 450-500 spam emails a day, 99% of the time they all get blocked :D

Yahoo is also pretty good imo.

I never get spam maybe only 1 a month :huh:

hotmail is the worst when it comes to spam mails

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Originally Posted by Hairbautt

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Originally Posted by Aaxel21

Although the whole thing with g-mail kinda sucked the other day.

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:eyebrows: What?

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Gmail was blocking accounts sending emails, including mine. It thought I was sending spam when I was really sending a letter to my english teacher.

I'm personally responsible for 0.1% of interweb spammage. :pinch:

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Originally Posted by benchez

I'm personally responsible for 0.1% of interweb spammage. :pinch:

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he he, thats very little:D

Now how about this site;)

gmail is the best