April Spam Stats from OnlyMyEmail

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.

Total Spam Load: 92.72

Total Legitimate Email: 11.89%

• 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