What do sex, drugs and software have in common?
They are the top three things purchased off spam email.
Often these goods are pirated, counterfeit, or cheap knock-offs that would be difficult to come by through the legitimate market.
More than 150 billion spam messages circulate daily, accounting for more than 85 percent of the total number of emails sent throughout the world. The sheer volume of spam consumes an enormous amount of bandwidth and remains one of the Internet’s biggest security problems.
According to new research by Internet security company Marshal, how many Internet users admitted to purchasing items from spam?
Poll results and the surprising answer: Friday.
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jaeda on August 25th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
yeah, spams were considered as universal problems.. i think things like that are part of it.
cassy on August 25th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
yes, about jaeda said its a universal problem, but i think theres any thing that we can do about this.