Spam Loses Its Allure

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Spam Loses Its Allure

08-04-2005, 09:16 PM,

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Spam Loses Its Allure

Quote:Spam is becoming less attractive as criminals focus on fraud, identity theft and extortion.

This has meant a decrease in the ratio of spam to legitimate e-mail from 83% in January to 67% in June.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4739709.stm

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