Project Honey Pot Traps Billionth Spam

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @05:33AM from the spam-sequestration dept.

EastDakota writes "Project Honey Pot today announced that it had trapped its 1 billionth spammer. To celebrate, the team behind the largest community sourced project tracking online fraud and abuse released a full rundown of statistics on the last five years of spam. Findings include: spam drops 21% on Christmas Day and 32% of New Year's Day; the most spam is sent on Mondays, the least on Saturdays; spammers found at least 956 different ways to spell VIAGRA (e.g., VIAGRA, V1AGRA, V1@GR@, V!AGRA, VIA6RA, etc.) in mail received by the Project; and much more."

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In the terribly elegant words of... someone? by Sir_Lewk · 2009-12-15 05:50 · Score: 4, Informative

You can't fix stupid.

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Re:ok by idontgno · 2009-12-15 06:16 · Score: 4, Informative

The Spam Club is sending a message. That posting was the /. equivalent of a horse's head in your bed.

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