Spam Hits 95% of All Email

An anonymous reader writes "Commtouch released its Email Threats Trend Report based on the automated analysis of billions of email messages weekly. The report examines the appearance of new kinds of attachment spamsuch as PDF spam and Excel spam together with the decline of image spam, as well as the growing threat of innocent appearing spam containing links to malicious web sites. Image spam declined to a level of less than 5% of all spam, down from 30% in the first quarter of 2007; also, image pump-and-dump spam has all but disappeared, with pornographic images taking its place."

Comments

My spam is still lame :-P

[danaris]

...also, image pump-and-dump spam has all but disappeared, with pornographic images taking its place.

Huh? Where? Man, all I ever get are stupid Viagra spam and "O3M S0FTWARE!" (and variants thereupon).

Humpfh. Everyone gets pr0n spam but me.

Dan Aris

Re:My spam is still lame :-P

[varmittang]

Tell me, is it bad when if you recognize someone from high school in one of those.

Re:My spam is still lame :-P

[Chrisq]

Especially when its your phys ed. teacher.

Re:My spam is still lame :-P

[blindcoder]

Do you recognise the girl? Then call her!
Do you recognise the canine? Then yes, that's bad.

Re:My spam is still lame :-P

[Anonymous Coward]

I could forward you mine, if you like.

Re:Summary only link

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll test it out for you. Downloading the file... opening it.... oh crap!
don't open the fi

HAHAHAHA DISREGARD THAT.
I SUCK DICKS.

Mine is full of spam...

[psychicsword]

All I ever get is spam.

Most of the subjects are as follows:(filtered for privacy)
Courses next term
[Course name here] Grades
IMPORTANT: Calculus Final Exam Time
Hello from [Relative name here]
[Subscribe newsletter here]
Funny pictures

Why wont it stop?

Re:SPAM @ 95%?!

[blindcoder]

That's because they read every mail before it hits your inbox.

Re:SPAM @ 95%?!

[Opportunist]

I do NOT want to know what words you teach your 3 year old.

Re:Summary only link

[cayenne8]

From the article:"... image pump-and-dump spam has all but disappeared, with pornographic images taking its place."

I dunno....I thought "pump-and-dump" was another word for "pornographic images"....

:-)

Re:Email is dead, long live Email

[mrjb]

and put all of the energy and cost savings into developing encrypted telepathy
It will never work. Considering the trash in my brain, I must conclude that it has already been done, and it has already been compromised.

Re:call me a cynic, but

[Snocone]

Are you saying flirting is 95% ineffective? You have got to be kidding.

Well, let's assume I am, shall we?

In that case, explain the existence of the site I faux-quoted and its ilk.

Methinks that if I was indeed kidding, there would not exist the market which this class of business caters to. (Or, for that matter, the porn/prostitution/yadayadayada classes of business.) However, since they do exist, we can deduce that the market that they are addressing does indeed exist, and it would appear to further be a reasonable assumption that if people could undercut 95% inefficiency on a consistent basis, then that market would not exist. But it does. So, I am not kidding. QED.