I just received the following statistics on spam from OnlyMyEmail, a hosted anti-spam filtering service, for the month of April:
The good news from the Spam front for the month of April is that Phishing fraud emails are down substantially, to less than 2 per 1,000 emails; though Fraud emails in general have not abated much. It’s also worth noting that email distributed viruses are at exceptionally low levels (.063% of all email) as well.
However, spam continues to account for almost 93% of all email directed at domains protected by OnlyMyEmail’s MX-Defender, with increases especially evident in bounced spam from spoofed sender addresses.
During April, just short of 80% of all email sent to valid addresses on our network are spam of one form or another.Most troubling, however, is the continued increase in unwanted email from “quasi-legitimate” marketing firms that are often hired by major brand-name companies, as they represent a potentially greater threat to end-users than any small time spam-operator ever could.
The SpamStatsTotal Spam Load: 92.72
Total Legitimate Email: 11.89%
Spam Tokens/Sites/Senders
- Spam : 75.48%
- Direct Marketing: 1.94%
- Fraud: 3.60%
- Commercial Newsletters: 0.77%
- Viruses/Warnings: 0.63%
- List-Servers: 1.12%
Subject line Words/Phrases:
- Ultimate Online Enhancers
- Financial Market Trade Picks
- Your pre-approved loan Linked
Words/phrases:
- Follow this link
- Press here
- More testimonials here
Content phrases:
- Male enhancement formula
- Stop receiving offers
- No doctor visits
Top Phishing Frauds:
- Citibank
- Ebay
- PayPal
Sending Addresses:
- 0451.com
- Every1.net
- Arabia.com
Spammer Sites:
- Wellenhancement.com
- Seescum.biz
- Netian.com
