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.

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.