Spam Is Back, With a (Social Networking) Vengeance

Courtesy Mashable!  Wed, 05/27/2009 - 03:40

canAccording to the latest report from Symantec’s MessageLabs, spam level is over 90% again (90.4%, to be precise), which means that one 9 out of 10 e-mails are spam.

This is a huge increase compared to February, when the spam level was at 73.3%, and yes, it spells more trouble for social networks, which have recently been dealing with an onslaught of scams .

One of the biggest reasons for the spam increase is the fact...


 

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