20bn spam buckling inboxes
Internet users in Britain get 20billion spam e-mails every day – double the amount of junk mail sent a year ago.
Up to 120billion spam messages are sent daily worldwide – that's 20 for each person on the planet – and 49 out of 50 e-mails are junk.
Next year, social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace will become prime sources of personal data for spam gangs, a report claims today.
'2007 marked a turning point for threats,' said Jason Steer of IronPort Systems, which did the research.
