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89 Percent of All E-Mail Spam, Says Symantec

Posted by Kara Reeder Aug 7, 2009 10:34:51 AM

FOX Business reports that spam made up 89 percent of all e-mail messages in July, according to Symantec. The report also shows that there was a 52 percent rise in phishing attacks in July from June.

 

CNET News, which offers several handy charts and graphs, offers more information from Symantec's report. Health-related spam dropped 17 percent, while Nigerian hoax spam rose three percent. At one point in July, image spam made up as much as 17 percent of all spam. The U.S. is till the top sender of spam, followed by Brazil, South Korea and Turkey.

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