February 2006 Spam Categories
Here is a breakdown of 100 spam messages that I received over the last couple of days. The distinct lack of porn might indicate that the CAN Spam activities might be working on them - but certainly not the viagra ads. Over the last 500 messages - Ella missed two spam - not bad... 99.6%
55 pharma (mostly viagra, but weight loss, fountain of youth cream, pheromones)
13 cheap replica watches
10 oem software
9 mortgage, get out of debt for free
4 virus, fraud, 419
2 cheap degrees
2 gambling
1 cheap sex
1 foreign language
1 get rich quick
1 penny stocks
1 sat dish
posted by Bob Cagle @ 6:15 PM
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My spam runs about
50% OTC stock offers
20% Porn/internet dating
15% foreign language (Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portugese)
10% medical (viagra, valium ...)
5% other (nigerian scam, phishing, warez)
The stock/financials guys are getting increasingly clever about leaping over the spam hurdles. (I admit I'm not an Ella user. Bad me, bad bad)
I find the foreign language stuff the most amusing, if only because the volume is so high. Once in a while i'll paste it into http://babelfish.altavista.com to see what it is - and it's invariably either one of the other high volume types, or the ancient and venerable nigerian scam.
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