Flood of spam hit 92.5% of email in August
A FIRM CLAIMED that a staggering 85 per cent of all email traffic during August was spam, including poisoned viral spam. Email Systems said it monitored millions of emails in the UK and gave figures showing that the US and Britain were the major culprits. US and UK spam represented nearly 70 per cent of the whole total. On six days during August, spam soared to over 90 per cent of all email traffic and on one day hit the dizzyingly depressing heights of 92.59 per cent. The spam came from at least 25 different countries, said Email Systems, including Uruguay, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Moldova, Japan, India and Hungary. According to Neil Hammerton, MD of Email systems, the nature of spam is continuing to evolve. Pornography is on the decline and drugs and gambling are both signficantly increasing, he said. "
