Types of Spam

Out of all of the emails that are received each year 70%-80% are spam. The amount of spam sent is ever growing with no signs of slowing down. In 1994 the First large-scale spam email was sent to 6000 newsgroups, reaching millions of people and today there are around 90 billion spam emails sent each day.

Most spam that is sent and received is commercial advertising for doubtful products and get-rich-quick schemes. We are now also seeing new trends in the spam nature. Political spam is one of these new trends, these political spam emails often attack political parties, sometimes even threatening parties or political practices. Even though in most cases these threats are empty, it is essential that the members of the law keep up-to-date with what is contained within these messages as they could possibly contain genuine threats or contain communication between terrorists.

Anti-spam Solutions is the other new trend in spam that we are starting to see. This is the most ironic form of spam mail that we have seen emerge as the very thing telling you to get rid of spam is a spam email. The people behind this new form of spam want to cash in on the negative publicity that is generated by spam. Although this type of spam is highly annoying it seems harmless, however the truth is that opening the attachments and or clicking on the links contained within these Anti-spam Solutions emails you could potentially be downloading a Trojan virus.

The most common types of spam emails are made up of Adult Content, Health, IT, Personal Finance and Education/Training. These types of spam make up 50% of all the spam emails that are sent, with Adult Content and Health being the top culprits.

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