Spam Trends - September 2009
posted by Marc Chouinard in All about Spam on Sep 28, 2009
While examining our spam traffic over the last 4 weeks, I extracted the “new” content data. We received the usual spam every week, but occasionally had noticeable outbreaks. I was curious and compiled the following numbers (note that the % value is a comparison to August):
1st week of September:
Quiet week, nothing really noticeable (other than the usual traffic)
2nd week of September:
Image spam increased by 160% compared to what was seen in August
3rd week of September:
Image spam was still 80% higher (though it dropped 80% from the previous week), and Chinese URL spam increased by 140%
4th week of September:
Adult Phishing (“I am 24 years old and looking for…”) went up by 100%, and Chinese URLs, though down since the previous week, were still 60% higher than August
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