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by Mike Masnick

Mon, May 24th 2004 2:17pm





Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While Porn Spam Is Washed Up

from the spam-trends dept

The latest study on spam trends appears to show that financial spam is outpacing pharmaceutical spam - though, honestly, so much of both is coming out that it's really hard to imagine that this matters at all. Meanwhile, it seems that porn spam is increasingly less interesting to spammers as the numbers have been on a noticeable decline for quite some time. No matter what, though, it appears that CAN-SPAM has done absolutely nothing to slow down the amount of spam sent.

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    Oliver Wendell Jones, May 24th, 2004 @ 2:42pm

    Most SPAM

    Most of my recent SPAM has been from people offering me a great Mort.gage R.ate!

    Like I would really take a loan from a company that doesn't even know how to spell mor.tga.ge?

     

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      NOBODY, May 24th, 2004 @ 3:01pm

      Re: Most SPAM

      I agree.
      But they do that to get around spam filters.
      My least favorite spam is the stuff you get that's got nothing but gibberish in it.

       

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    Cyke, May 24th, 2004 @ 3:36pm

    Let's see

    Our email system providing service to 600 employees blocked 10,000 spam emails TODAY! And it has been like this for quite some time. I think it is safe to say that CAN-SPAM is worthless...

     

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      aNonMooseCowherd, May 25th, 2004 @ 6:47am

      Re: Let's see

      Our email system providing service to 600 employees blocked 10,000 spam emails TODAY!

      10000/600 = 16.66... per person. Consider yourself lucky. Lots of people get hundreds per day, and some get thousands.

       

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        Oliver Wendell Jones, May 25th, 2004 @ 7:51am

        Re: Let's see

        Our new SPAM filter at work intercepts what it suspects is SPAM (and so far it's been REALLY good) but it then forwards a message to you that tells you it has blocked a SPAM message from "BillyBob@GreatDeals2U.com" and if you would like to receive it, just hit Reply or do nothing and the message will be deleted in 7 days.

        That's great, but my "Ding!"-you've got mail sound still goes off at least 100-150 times per day.

        Thankfully I figured out how to set up rules in Outlook to automatically file any incoming "suspected spam warning" messages into a separate folder and then play a brief audio clip from Monty Python's "Spam!" sketch, so now I hear "Ding... Spam!" and every once in a great while I just get a plain old "Ding" that means I have real mail to read.

         

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