Recently Used Spam Categories
By Gina on March 2, 2010 | Spam and email, Avira, February, Pharmacy, spam landscape
Avira’s AntiSpam engine detected and announced the most used spam categories in February 2010. At the list below you can see that the biggest percentage (37.55%) is still for buying meds from online pharmacies.
Spam categories in March:
Pharmacy 37.55%
Other 36.80%
Watch 5.22%
Malware 4.91%
Software 3.53%
University 3.25%
Lottery 2.69%
Nigerian 2.07%
Casino 1.74%
Phishing 1.12%
Jobs 0.72%
Loan 0.24%
Commercials 0.14%
Fashion 0.00%
Avira is stating that between January and February 2010 there didn’t change much in the spam landscape. The second place at this landscape is for other spams, spams that don’t fit any category. It takes 36.80% and the third place is for watches – 5.22%. What is more, malware takes 4th place at February's list with 4.91% after it was only 0.5% in January.
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