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SPAM costs US businesses billions

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Wow!! (Click me)

I can only imagine how much it costs business per year from internet surfing (i.e. this forum 😉 )

Deleting Spam Costs Billions, Study Finds

Wed Feb 2, 9:23 PM ET Technology - AP


By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer

NEW YORK - Time wasted deleting junk e-mail costs American businesses nearly $22 billion a year, according to a new study from the University of Maryland.





A telephone-based survey of adults who use the Internet found that more than three-quarters receive spam daily. The average spam messages per day is 18.5 and the average time spent per day deleting them is 2.8 minutes.


The loss in productivity is equivalent to $21.6 billion per year at average U.S. wages, according to the National Technology Readiness Survey produced by Rockbridge Associates, Inc., and the Center for Excellence in Service at Maryland's business school.


The study, to be released Thursday, also found that 14 percent of spam recipients actually read messages to see what they say, and 4 percent of the recipients have bought something advertised through spam within the past year.


The random survey of 1,000 U.S. adults was conducted in November and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points
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Originally posted by: outriding
I blame the sysadmin for that.

They should be putting in some rbl and keyword type filters on the gateway.
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While I agree and my company has done so, it still gets through. The SPAMMERS have adapted and have much better "business like" subject lines. I've saw several over the past months that have subject lines very close to our business practice - Automotive supplier.

Side Note: 45 plus percent of all the worlds spam originates in the US according to PC magazine. Quite amazing that it bites us the hardest! 😉

 
Occasionally the U.S. Govt can do some good.

I'd like to give a rare Thank You to the Feds for shutting this operation down:

3-12-2005 FTC Says Anti-Spyware Vendor Shut Down

A software vendor that tried to drum up sales by offering to clean up nonexistent computer "spyware" has been temporarily shut down, U.S. regulators said on Friday.

The makers of Spyware Assassin tried to scare consumers into buying software through pop-up ads and e-mail that warned their computers had been infected with malicious monitoring software, the Federal Trade Commission said.

Free spyware scans offered by Spokane, Washington-based MaxTheater Inc. turned up evidence of spyware even on machines that were entirely clean, and its $29.95 Spyware Assassin program did not actually remove spyware, the FTC said.

A U.S. court has ordered the company and its owner, Thomas Delanoy, to suspend its activities until a court hearing on Tuesday. The company could be required to give back all the money it made from selling Spyware Assassin.

MaxTheater could not be reached for comment.
 
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