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Adult Spam Fell Limp In February
David Utter
Staff Writer
2007-03-06
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The State of Spam Report distributed by Symantec for February 2007 noted adult spam has continued to decline, going down to a new low of 3 percent of all spam.
Spammers have sought better profits from their efforts, and this has caused many to turn away from the come-hither approaches of adult-oriented spam.
Symantec said in its report that the three percent figure they have observed for adult spam represented a new low. Overall spam activity remained consistent with previous months.
Image spam has been a method in transition, as criminal spammers and anti-spam efforts battle back and forth to push it through filters or stop it in its tracks. Symantec said that image spammers have taken a new angle with their attacks.
That angle refers to the slanted text being included in their junk messages. This is an attempt to combine several techniques together to foil image spam scanning that might normally catch such messages and trash them.
Symantec pegged image spam as 38 percent of all spam circulating in February. At the SMTP layer, spam represented 70 percent of email traffic.
Products and health spam, like those for fake drugs, each represented 24 percent of the spam in circulation last month. Financial spams like pump-and-dump investments occupied another 21 percent.
Casino spam has taken on an international flavor. The report noted Italian, German, and French languages spams in circulation, likely to try and find other gamblers now that US laws have made it nearly impossible for bettors from America to visit online casinos.
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Tags: Spam, Email
About the Author:
David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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