XForce report - spam (and Turkey)

by Christina Clark Jul 31st 2008

In our last installment the XForce was busy keeping you safe on the Internet. In this episode it's XForce versus the evil spam.

Spam, as we all know, is a pain in the rear. The XForce report covers a lot of ground on spam and phishing.

Some of the things the report covers (that I won't):

What happened to image-based spam?
How much spam is phishing?
How much spam is PDF spam?
Where are the web pages contained in spam messages hosted?

So, here are the interesting spam nuggets from the report. The XForce reports that Russia sends 11% of spam, Turkey sends 8% and the US sends 7% of worldwide spam. Can you believe that Turkey is beating us in spam?

The XForce report also lists the most common subject lines for spam and surprisingly, there is not a mention of Viagra in any of them. The most popular spam subject line, at .67% of the world's spam is - Replica Watches. I know, boring, isn't it? The second and third most popular subject lines are about more risque topics.

If all this talk of spam has that lovely Monty Python song stuck in your head, go try the spam-a-lot game. But if you're at work you might want to turn your speakers down (or off)!

Tags: IBM, Monty Python, spam, XForce

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Ethan said 8:53AM on 8-01-2008

I've been getting a lot of "pope is dead" recently.

musti said 5:15PM on 8-01-2008

"Can you believe that Turkey is beating us in spam? "
Yeah, I can believe. Turkey is beating us in soccer, in education, in cuisine...can you believe?

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