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New Spam Site Found Every Three Seconds

Posted by samzenpus on from the spam-sausage-spam-spam-spam-mail-and-spam dept.

Stony Stevenson writes "New figures suggest that 92.3 percent of all email sent globally during the first three months of 2008 was spam. The data from Sophos also indicated that 23,300 new spam-related web pages were created every day during the period, or one about every three seconds. For the first time Turkey's contribution to the global spam problem puts it in the top three offending countries. Compromised computers in Turkey are now responsible for relaying 5.9 percent of the world's junk email, compared to 3.8 percent in the final quarter of 2007."

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  1. ASSP is the answer by Lershac · · Score: 4, Informative

    ASSP

    30 minutes to install on an exchange server... filters out all the spam.

    I run it on all my clients, and they average about 95% of all mail intercepted as spam with a zero false positive rate.
    http://assp.sourceforge.net/

    --
    Chuck
  2. While American spam offers girth and inches... by jddj · · Score: 3, Informative

    Turkish Spam KISS YOU! IT KISS YOU!!! It loving sex with all the womens of the world!

  3. Re:I dont get it... by 1u3hr · · Score: 3, Informative
    IIRC there was someone who tried an experiment some time ago. They tried to buy some of the v1|4|g|r|4 that they'd seen advertised in spam. They couldn't find a single spam which actually led to someone genuinely trying to sell something.

    Try it yourself. I just did, went to my trash folder and opened the first mail. Took me to sale-drug.com, which certainly looks like they have stuff for sale (or at least, they'll take my money). No need to take anyone's word for this, we all have plenty of spam.

    After a few months with most of the spam being stock scams, it's back to good old penis enlargers, generic viagra and cialis. It's all so fucking repulsive and insulting.