Symantec: 3 out of 4 emails in November were spam
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According to Symantec’s December State of Spam Report, which took 450 million inboxes worldwide into consideration, 72% of November emails were spam. Spammers and anti-spam programs fought hard in the ongoing battle of what gets to the user’s inbox. Throughout November, spammers employed tactics such as: Thanksgiving holiday captions in subject lines, advertisements of replica products, mass e-mail address collection using an animated snowball .gif image, “free†gift-cards from well-known companies, and seasonal lotto scams.
Companies behind anti-spam products released updated versions of their products, shared information between each other, and once again employed more advanced filtering techniques. More details available in December 2007 State of Spam Report (PDF).
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