Spam experiment overloads inboxes

**MIG-31** · Jul 1, 2008, 11:06 AM

Surfing the web unprotected will leave the average web user with 70 spam messages each day, according to an experiment by security firm McAfee. It invited 50 people from around the world, including five from the UK, to surf without spam filters.
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Source: BBC News

**Iria** · Jul 1, 2008, 11:39 AM

Only 70? That seems low. I think it's because these victims only used their accounts for 30 days.

IEMC · Jul 1, 2008, 11:46 AM

That's a lot, in my eyes, actually. I only get about 3 a day, if any, and even those end up in my Spam box.

**MIG-31** · Jul 1, 2008, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by IEMC

That's a lot, in my eyes, actually. I only get about 3 a day, if any, and even those end up in my Spam box.

That may be for your personal email address...You should see the crap i get through my DH email..This has an average of 40 per day..and thats going easy..

Going by a report i posted a while ago,the average post per week from spammers/Scammers is something in the region of 30m per week.

IMO if you don't get any your lucky.

IEMC · Jul 1, 2008, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by MIG-31

That may be for your personal email address...

I use this email for everything I sign up for / whatever wants my email address.

But yah, 3 a day. And it's a Yahoo account.

Maybe it's because it's a SBC Global Yahoo account, meaning I have their internet service. Might make it special, or something.

BlueMak · Jul 2, 2008, 03:41 AM

I find yahoo email quite good at filtering spam. 99% of the time the spam email will be delivered in the spam folder. I like it.

I get about 10-20 spam emails per 24h, though at one point a couple of years ago that number was 20 times more.