Attempts to curb spam are proving unsuccessful in view of. The Spam unstoppable latest data coming from the United States and revealing. That in the last nine months the amount of garbage. We receive in our e-mails has tripled. The US Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) receives 40,000 complaints daily. About spam on its website. It already has 12 million messages stored. That were not requested by recipients, but it can do little else since. The laws only allow action against those that constitute fraud. That is, 4% of the total. Brightmail. A provider of filters for e-mails and wireless messages.
Spam unstoppable about 140,000 junk emails daily
Warns in its latest study that spam has increased by 450% in the executive email list last year. Two thirds of the 1,265 Internet users surveyed. Qrtis, another company specialized in these anti-spam solutions. Believe that in the last year their email inboxes have been overwhelmed. According to 74% of the survey participants, the reason was unsolicited emails. A particularly worrying problem is that of unsolicited pornographic emails. Which have doubled in the last twelve months. 8% of these include sexually aggressive messages or explicit images. He has not requested, but also violated.
Spam unstoppable According to Brightmail
The latest tactic developed by these mailbox ASB Directory invaders is to attach. Light videos to pass through the anti-spam filters. According to the consulting firm Radicati. By the end of this year more than 2.3 billion spam messages will be sent daily, which will become 14.57 billion in 2006. That is why it is logical that businesses like Brightmail proliferate. Radicati expects anti-spam revenue to be around $88 million by the end of 2002, growing 20% annually to reach $182 million in 2006. In recent months, the US Congress has made a significant effort to regulate spam by introducing a dozen laws restricting these practices.
