Spam email still on the rise

Junk emails are still clogging up Inboxes, with spam accounting for 89.73 per cent of all email traffic, new figures claim.

According to security company SoftScan, spam containing pictures increased dramatically in 2006 and is becoming more sophisticated to confuse anti-spam software.

SoftScan said that spammers are using more complex images and colours to trick anti-spam filters.

According to the figures, more than 60 per cent of spam comes from Europe while only five per cent is from South East Asia.

“It seems hard to believe the amount of people that do respond to spam messages... I’m sure it won’t be long until [the spammers] start using more sophisticated images, along with their current techniques,” said Diego d’Ambra, chief technology officer at SoftScan.

http://www.softscan.co.uk/

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