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Spam email still on the rise
J unk emails are still clogging up Inboxes, with spam accounting for 89.73 per cent of all email traffic, new figures claim. Sounds about right to me. I don't think my legitimate messages have outnumbered the spam messages for about the past ten years. My Google mail account currently has 3344 messages in the spam folder, and this was after I cleaned it out Saturday night. Most of my mail is forwarded through the Rantburg mail server, which filters out a lot of spam, so that's 3344 after being pruned. According to security company SoftScan, spam containing pictures increased dramatically in 2006 and is becoming more sophisticated to confuse anti-spam software. That's the crap with nonsense sentences masking a graphic with an ad for Viagra or penny stocks or whatever else they're scamming. SoftScan said that spammers are using more complex images and colours to trick anti-spam filters. According to the figures, more than 60 per cent of spam comes from Europe while only five per cent is from South East Asia. I'd set the proportion higher than that coming through China and Korea. It seems hard to believe the amount of people that do respond to spam messages... I'm sure it won't be long until [the spammers] start using more sophisticated images, along with their current techniques, said Diego d'Ambra, chief technology officer at SoftScan. I have a hard time understanding why anyone would respond to the pestilence. Email is no longer a viable method of communication I'd hate to think of the number of legitimate messages I've missed as I've been clearing out the hundreds of junk mails. Posted by: Fred 2006-12-06 |
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