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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. ntpdate time.spam.net? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I love it. I can sync my computer to it.

  2. Re:I hate spam... by zappepcs · · Score: 5, Funny

    If spam gives you a pain in the balls, you are eating it wrong.

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  3. Re:I dont get it... by chromatic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  4. Wait a minute by relikx · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought Turkey was a Muslim country, isn't spam some sort of shoulder meat? Oh right, they're secular.

    1. Re:Wait a minute by EdIII · · Score: 5, Interesting

      isn't spam some sort of shoulder meat ?


      I think you may have answered your own question there :) LOL

      Officially, S.P.A.M originally stood for "Shoulder of Pork And haM". However, it most often referred to as "Something Posing As Meat" and "Spare Parts Animal Meat."

      There are also, completely unsubstantiated of course, rumors that old man Hormel himself thought he was going to hell for his part in creating it...

  5. Re:Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You think it's bad now, wait until the spammers can faceboogle you.