New Spam Site Found Every Three Seconds

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."

Comments

Ranking is unimportant

[EmbeddedJanitor]

Yet again we see ranking used in a silly way. It's the numbers that are important.

Third placed Turkey and tenth placed UK are wthin a +- 6% band, probably close to the margin of error in the analysis.

Re:I dont get it...

[chromatic]

Am I missing something here?

Yes; it takes plenty of processor time, electricity, memory, bandwidth, and administrator time to make sure that you don't get spam. Also, not everyone uses e-mail the same way you do. Some of us actually want to hear from people we don't know.

Won't sombody think of the children?

[cynicsreport]

..... something really should be done....

Yes, sir! something should be done about spam!
And, while we're at it, someone should really do something about domain squatting.
Oh year, and what about phishing? Why isn't anyone doing anything about that!?
Seriously, guys; get on it. I'll be watching the third season of Seinfeld DVD.

Was anyone surprised here?

[damn_registrars]

I know that my email (especially in my older accounts) certainly matches the rate of spam in excess of 90% by volume.

And the part about a new spam site created every 3 seconds shouldn't surprise anyone either. As much as people despise spam, there is still money to be made in it. Thats why people continue to send spam, of course. Thats also why people continue to buy new domain names to sell discount "drugs" and "software".

This just tells us what many of us already knew. The spam problem will continue to get worse until we actually apply a economic solution to this economic problem.

Re:I dont get it...

[kylehase]

Even if you only give your private address to your friends, you must have smart friends who NEVER:

• Included you on a To: or CC: list of recipients,
• Used your email address to search for you on social sites,
• Sent you e-cards/e-invites

That's pretty amazing. I'm sure most of the spam in my "friends only" or "business only" email accounts were not leaked by me but by a trusted party who didn't know better.