So that's what viagra does... now it all makes sense. | |
I've got to say I hardly get any spam. Nope, the last email I received was from a kindly Nigerian... | |
I use yahoo and i still get some spam..but thank heavens for the spam filter as well or else i'd have a more significant amount going into me trash bin | |
Ill crack out my hacking deck and give it a shot.... I never get any spam wierdly. | |
Last time I checked my mail, it said it was full. Mind you the last time I checked was when I made my Escapist account... | |
I get so much spam its rediculous. I dont even use my yahoo email anymore because of it. When I was in college I gave out personal info like my email alot in order to get free stuff and now I'm paying the price for it. Those cassette singles I got were not worth it. | |
i never get spam, but those "GET RIPPED ON 4 WEEKS WITHOUT INSANE DIETS OR LARGE AMOUNTS OF TRAINING" can get quite annoying. whoever the spammer is, he cant do æ´s, ø´s and å´s, so you can easily see its fake. | |
So, that's 3,000,000,000 spams a day, and about 4 clicked on. It's kind of sad to imagine a business where literally 99% of your efforts are for naught. Well, except that they're spammers, so I guess it's funny. | |
I KNEW IT!!!! Seriously, I've been getting more spam than I've ever had. Not that I'm complaining, I think they're nifty to read. | |
This is why I have two email addresses. One to supply to all the internet sites and corporations who want my email address (this one gets quite a lot of spam) and one that I only give out on a personal, face to face basis. I check the former every day or so and sift through the crap to occasionally find something actually sent to me and I have my phone set to check the latter every fifteen minutes and notify me when there's a new message. It's definitely not possible to avoid spam in today's world, but you do have some control over how much of it reaches your perception. | |
I am so glad its not going through letter boxes... | |
i barely get any Spam, although that could be because i never check my Email, still interesting to know that it's such a large amount of spam going around. Slightly off topic, anybody remember that Spam-bot the escapist got a while ago? | |
I always get them about people saying they have a large stock in diamonds. In china? I don't know I only read subject lines then I delete and black list the account, or something to that effect. | |
Spam sucks, spammers should be shot (and I mean that literally). Pirates are considered Hostis humani generis (enemy of mankind) for a lot of the same reasons spammers should be, in that they impede commerce and communication, summery executions is the order of the day. | |
i find it is better to have three or four e-mail accounts, and one particularly to use if you are putting an address in a form or something that might be linked to potential spam. i check it like once a month and delete around 400 spam messages haha | |
This is why gmail rocks. Been using it for about 3 years or more now, and can honestly say I've had no more than a dozen spam emails come thru - and every single one of them was immediately picked up and sent straight to my spam folder before it ever saw my inbox. I love you gmail. Marry me. | |
Apparently spam works the same way offline junkmail works. The more out-there your name/handle are, the more likely it is that you're going to get spam'd. Sure, your addy can get picked up by crawlers, but I have to imagine that the "out-there" thing is still important. That's because out of the three or four email accounts I have, only my oldest Gmail account gets spam'd, and only in the last few months. I'm either extremely lucky, or I just haven't spread my info around enough to attract interest. I think my addys are in less mom and aunt contact lists than most people, and that probably saves me some chaos, too. Just like the offline world, there are certainly some benefits to being fairly antisocial (I don't get a lot of junk snail mail either.) | |
Next thing you know the street is flooded with letters... Harry Potter 1 comes into mind. OT: The only mail that I don't want is the chain mail where they say I will die or something. | |
Not surprising, in the last 24 hours, my Yahoo inbox has over 89 unread messages and I only have 2 contacts -_- | |
Hotmail filter FTW!!!! | |
Dude, I seriously doubt there are enough trees in the world. | |
That reminds me of one of my alltime favorite Penny-Arcade comics:
Also, spam sucks, but I too think I get less spam these days than I did in the past. Hopefully one day those spammers will just give up. | |
Thats a whole lot of crap being sent all over the world. If spam was removed how would that effect the interweb as a whole? | |
Lot less data traffic, angry people and an increase of annoyed turds that like to mail and bother people. | |
gee ... spam the meat is good fried with eggs and toast , but the morons who can up with electronic spam should be fried | |
Wish there were international laws against spam. | |
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Spam Messages Increased to 3 Billion/Day in 2009
A recent report said that spam messages spiked in the latter half of 2009 to 3 billion/day, mostly due to the rise of botnets.
The amount of spam email has been pretty stable the last few years, hovering around the 600 million spam messages per day. But according to a report from M86 security released today, the rise of several botnets with inventive names like Zeus and Koobface has created a huge increase in the amount of spam in the latter half of 2009. A botnet is a group of PCs that are unwittingly controlled from an outside source, usually by installing a piece of malicious software. M86 security claimed that 78% of all spam originates from computers in the five biggest botnets.
"The spamming botnets are constantly in flux, waxing and waning, morphing, becoming obsolete, being replaced, taken down, and upgraded," the report said. "It is important to identify the major contributors to the volume of spam, so the industry can take action against them, such as the botnet takedowns that have already occurred. Consider the impact on Spam levels if the top 2 or 3 botnets were disabled."
I'm not sure if it's because I generally use gmail, but my personal visibility of spam has actually decreased over the last few years. Sure, I still get random emails containing only Russian characters or promises of increased ... virility, but it seems to me that the situation is better than it was, say, ten years ago. Perhaps that's why the spammers are increasing their efforts. Less messages are making their way through the filters so they're trying to drown us in spam.
That's not to say that I'm not all for someone taking down these botnets. Any shadowrunners out there want to make a few extra nuyen?
Source: Threatpost
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