Security experts brace for September spam deluge
SoftScan is predicting a 40 per cent surge in junk email during September as spammers target students returning after the summer break.
The security firm has already seen a "dramatic rise" in the past few days as spammers perfect their techniques with e-card and document spam.
A range of new types of spam have started to circulate in recent months as spammers try to find ways to circumvent filters.
Many spammers now embed messages into various document formats including PDFs, Word files and Excel files.
