July 13, 2005

Email catches up with postal mail

Webuser (UK) is reporting that according to Lycos.co.uk:

    Just 10 per cent of all email is a genuine message, with the volume of spam email, phishing attacks, trojans and virus-infected email messages rising 600 per cent in the past year.

Every day when I fetch my mail I notice that there are far too many advertisements. The break down is something like this:
60% advertisements
15% financial/home/auto statements
15% bills
5% magazines
4% miscellaneous
1% personal mail

Posted by volubis at July 13, 2005 06:03 PM | TrackBack