Hi pogueman!
Between 60 and 80 percent of all email is spam.
Below you will find online references to these figures.
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February 24, 2004
Viruses Blamed for Expected 80% Spam Saturation by Q3
By Sharon Gaudin
?Spam is increasing at such an alarming rate that even though it
accounted for 24 percent of all email a year ago, it is expected to
make up 80 percent of all email being sent around the world by the
third-quarter of this year.?
Internet News
http://www.internetnews.com/stats/article.php/3317271
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Eighty percent of all email is spam
?Here are the awful numbers, from a recent study by Yahoo www.yahoo.com:
Eighty percent of all email is spam. Most spam comes from the U.S. And
that's because ... about 20 percent of U.S. residents admit to buying
something from a spam ad.?
July 2004, Week 3 -- The Spam Report
http://www.oncomp.com/july04-3.htm
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?Forrester Research says 40 to 60 percent of all email is spam, with a
typical user in the United States getting 14,500 spam messages a year,
said Isaac Lim, Sybari sales manager for Southeast Asia.?
Sun Star Thursday, April 08, 2004
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb/2004/04/08/bus/spam.to.get.worse.companies.need.to.protect.selves.sybari..html
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BBC January 2004
?If opening your inbox feels like a horrible chore then you won't be
surprised to learn that 50 to 60% percent of all email is spam. That's
three billion spam emails a day. Its estimated cost to businesses is
around $20 billion.?
BBC
http://www.bbcworld.com/content/clickonline_archive_04_2004.asp?pageid=666&co_pageid=4
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76 percent of all email is spam
"Unwanted e-mails, or spam, surged to an all-time high in May
representing as much as three-quarters of all e-mail traffic,
according to a survey," reported the AFP . Out of 909 million emails,
almost 692 million were spam, according to Internet security firm
MessageLabs. In other words, 76 percent of all email is spam! Virus
infected emails stayed about the same at just over 9 percent.
http://www.hostingtech.com/?m=show&id=226
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From Internet News: May 5, 2004
?Outdoing most analysts' worst predictions, spam accounted for 82
percent of all U.S. email last month.?
Record Broken: 82% of U.S. Email is Spam
http://www.internetnews.com/stats/article.php/3349921
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?A small nugget of good news lies buried among the mountains of
unsolicited commercial e-mail: the spam volume held steady from April
to May, according to two leading e-mail processing firms. Brightmail's
Probe Network found that spam leveled at 64 percent, while Postini
measured the monthly volume unchanged at 78 percent.?
Internet News : June 7, 2004
http://www.internetnews.com/stats/article.php/3364421
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Figures for 2003
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Forty percent of all email is spam
?According to a recent Harris Interactive poll, more than 40 percent
of all email is spam, up from just 13 percent a year earlier. By the
end of this year, spam will account for more than half of all email;
some enterprises are reporting that spam is already more than 80
percent of their incoming email. In America, almost half of all spam
received comes from overseas. Most alarmingly, spam is evolving from a
nuisance to a business threat, with volume email creating a Denial of
Service (DoS)-style attack, bringing email servers to their virtual
knees.?
2003: THE YEAR OF SPAM
http://libra.unitbv.ro/internet/articles/spam_year.htm
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The statistics below are current as of 2003, but Spam statistics are
quickly outdated.
These statistics were derived from a number of different reputable
sources including: Google, Brightmail, Jupiter Research, eMarketer,
Gartner, MailShell, Harris Interactive, and Ferris Research.
Spam Statistics
Email considered Spam 40% of all email
Daily Spam emails sent 12.4 billion
Daily Spam received per person 6
Annual Spam received per person 2,200
Spam cost to all non-corp Internet users $255 million
Spam cost to all U.S. Corporations in 2002 $8.9 billion
States with Anti-Spam Laws 26
Email address changes due to Spam 16%
Estimated Spam increase by 2007 63%
Annual Spam in 1,000 employee company 2.1 million
Users who reply to Spam email 28%
Users who purchased from Spam email 8%
Corporate email that is considered Spam 15-20%
Wasted corporate time per Spam email 4-5 seconds
http://www.spamfilterreview.com/spam-statistics.html
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I hope this helps!
Best regards,
Bobbie7 |
