Project Honey Pot Traps Billionth Spam 118
EastDakota writes "Project Honey Pot today announced that it had trapped its 1 billionth spammer. To celebrate, the team behind the largest community sourced project tracking online fraud and abuse released a full rundown of statistics on the last five years of spam. Findings include: spam drops 21% on Christmas Day and 32% of New Year's Day; the most spam is sent on Mondays, the least on Saturdays; spammers found at least 956 different ways to spell VIAGRA (e.g., VIAGRA, V1AGRA, V1@GR@, V!AGRA, VIA6RA, etc.) in mail received by the Project; and much more."
Spelling (Score:2, Interesting)
I have seen 945 of the spellings in my inbox just last week.... damn spammers
Spam = spy chatter? (Score:5, Interesting)
Is spam even really spam anymore?
Every now and then I take a look at my gmail spam folder, and none of the messages contain links or even coherent sentences.
Nothing being sold, nothing being said... What's the point?
Legalize OTC Viagra ? (Score:3, Interesting)
Putting aside for a moment the potential medical issues, I wonder how much money would be saved in the US economy if we just legalized the selling of Viagra over the counter?
Re:Spam = spy chatter? (Score:3, Interesting)
no ipV6 (Score:4, Interesting)
The most effective way of stopping spam thus far is using IP blacklisting. It should be noted if the net moves to ipV6, that will be the end of blacklist effectiveness for some time.