According to DEAC, a provider of outsourced IT services, which studies the flow of e-mail among users, e-mail SPAM has increased by 40 percent over the past five years.
Says DEAC board chairman Andris Gailītis: “Those who send SPAM are constantly improving their technologies and looking for new ways to avoid filters. The technologies are new and much smarter now. The systems imitate positive E-mails, and the text is automatically generated in a unique way.
“The text can be provided as a photo, for instance. The spam filters into the user’s E-mail and then sends SPAM to everyone in that user’s address book.”
DEAC says that of the 94.4 percent of e-mail that was SPAM in 2007, 76 percent was made up of grey listed e-mail, 14.4 percent was outright SPAM, 2.8 percent represented SPF (Sender Policy Framework) rejections, and 1.2 percent had viruses.
At the global level, 90 percent of all e-mail is spam, totaling some 200 billion e-mails of this type sent around the world daily.
