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SPAM
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One would be hard pressed to find any other subject that joins political and economic leaders and private Internet users together as effectively as the bothersome flood of unsolicited commercial e-mail called “spam”. Spam mails advertise everything from pornography to penis and breast enlargement to travel offerings and much more. In the EU alone, spam accounts for economic losses of billions of Euros each year.
The reason: Companies are forced to accept productivity losses and invest in unreliable filter programs. Internet providers must make additional resources available for the transmission of illegitimate e-mails. According to various estimates, every e-mailbox owner receives between 13 and 18 of these mass mailings per day. This means that number of spam mails is between 60 and 80 percent of the total amount of e-mail traffic.
It is no wonder that there is an enormous loss of trust in e-mail as a reliable method of communication. The spam plague for John Q. Public has gone from merely annoying to downright harrassing. Many users are at a complete loss as to what to do in order to protect themselves from these unwanted advertisements. Technical countermeasures have long lost the ability to successfully keep this menace in check.
Recently, a highly professional and criminally active scene has developed around the phenomenon of spam. In these circles, malicious code is programmed which is then used to make unsuspecting users’ PCs send out a barrage of spam to other e-mail users – creating so-called “zombies”. This method allows the offenders to create entire networks (bot networks) through which they can spread not only their advertisements but also phishing and virus mails throughout the worldwide data communications network. According to the security manufacturer “Return Path”, 97 percent of all computers worldwide function as spam zombies.
Spam mails originate above all from the USA (23 percent) and China (20 percent). Germany is responsible for 2.5 percent of the undesired messages. Europe as a whole is responsible for 27.1 percent.
naiin in the fight against spam
Internet users can send objectionable spam mails to the naiin complaint registry, “netwatch”. The economic initiative investigates the individuals and the principal parties behind the spam campaigns. Beyond this, naiin works internationally to ensure that effective legal and technical measures against the flood of spam are developed and implemented.
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>> Support naiin | >> Report spam!
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Current information on this subject:
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>> Spamhaus Still Lists e360 as Spammer
>> Spam threat from video tribute sites
>> One fifth of corporate email is spam
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