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| by Davey Winder | |
| Tuesday, 01 July 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 4 The reason, and again this should come as no surprise, is
revealed by Guy Roberts, director of the McAfee Avert Labs EMEA, who
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Perhaps the most interesting result, though, of the experiment is the shift away from scattergun tactics to targeted spam distribution campaigns. Foreign language and social engineering spam accounted for more than the anticipated volume of emails it seems. France and Germany were the two countries that received the most foreign language spam with 11 percent and 14 percent respectively, something which McAfee expects to increase substantially across the globe in the future. Nick Kelly, a McAfee Avert Labs Analyst, says: “If we’d have done this experiment two years ago, I would have expected a very small percentage of the spam to be written in a foreign language, if any at all. Although this is a small percentage of the overall spam, it’s something we expect to grow and grow.” When it comes to the actual subject matter of spam, then the double whammy of finance and advertising comes out on top. Yeah, I know, to be expected. The ongoing credit crunch just making it even more inevitable that spammers will draw upon a combination of greed and poverty to pull the punters in. If finance and advertising topped the subject matter chart, what were the other popular spam categories? Read on to find out... CONTINUED |
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