Spam Continues to Increase

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A significant increase in the volume of spam sent across the internet in the last few years is leading to additional productivity costs for businesses according to the Australian Institute of Criminology. The Institute has recently released its latest report 'Spam: nuisance or menace, prevention or cure?' which discusses the increasing sophistication of techniques used to send unsolicited commercial email messages commonly known as spam.

In June 2003, 49 per cent of filtered email messages were spam, this number had increased to 67 per cent by December 2004. An estimated 60 per cent of spam comes from the United States.

Spam is not universally regarded as a problem. In a study from the United States, two-thirds of the respondents did not consider email to be spam if it originated from a sender with whom they had previously conducted business. The same study found that 59 per cent of the respondents found spam 'annoying but not a big problem', 27 per cent found it to be a 'big problem' and 14 per cent believed it to be 'no problem at all'.

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