Temporary Reduction In Spam
Posted Thursday 13th November 2008 by Catherine in SEO.
Those web users sick to death of spam mail can breathe a sigh of relief, temporarily anyway.
A web hosting firm that was reported to list spam gangs as clients has been closed down in the US after an investigation by the Washington Post newspaper and Ironport, an anti-span company, say that since this event junk email levels have dropped by 70 per cent.
The company in question, McColo was taken offline on 11th November and this immediately led to the junk mail reduction but the respite will be short lived. It is all thanks to an in-depth investigation over four months by the Washington Post who then passed the information to their ISP, global Crossing and Hurricane Electric, who then decided to close the company.
Spammers will, once again, find a way round this temporary hiccup by moving somewhere where they are less likely to be spotted and it really doesn’t matter to them. A recent study shows that they only need one response for every 12.5 million emails sent to make a profit and it is these sorts of statistics that urges them on.
Scientists infiltrated one of the biggest junk mail generators, Storm, to assess how money was made and they found that from hijacking home computers to process their junk email, they had over a million machines under their control. One of several ways they were making money through spam was by setting up a fake pharmacy site that sold herbal remedies. When a person responds by trying to enter their credit card details, an error message is returned and the details stolen.
Never respond to any emails that you haven’t invited and always check that you are on a secure site before entering into any purchase.
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