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We all get sick to death of Spam email, I personally tend to switch my personal email address once a year. thankfully though there are groups of people who dedicate their free time to helping us.

One of these groups is “Project Honeypot” and i mention this group specifically as they just stopped their BILLIONTH spam email. and have published quite an in depth report here…

http://www.projecthoneypot.org/1_billionth_spam_message_stats.php

Highlights include…

  • Monday is the busiest day of the week for email spam, Saturday is the
    quietest.
  • 12:00 (GMT) is the busiest hour of the day for spam, 23:00 (GMT) is the
    quietest
  • Malicious bots have increased at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of
    378% since Project Honey Pot started
  • Over the last five years, you’d have been 9 times more likely to get a
    phishing message for Chase Bank than Bank of America, however Facebook is
    rapidly becoming the most phished organization online
  • Finland has some of the best computer security in the world, China some
    of the worst
  • It takes the average spammer 2 and a half weeks from when they first
    harvest your email address to when they send you your first spam message,
    but that’s twice as fast as they were five years ago
  • Every time your email address is harvested from a website, you can expect
    to receive more than 850 spam messages
  • Spammers take holidays too: spam volumes drop nearly 21% on Christmas Day
    and 32% on New Year’s Day

So on behalf of the entire interweb..

Thanks Guys! Its people like you who make my day that little bit easier.

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