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Are you
sick and tired of opening your email box only to be deluged with
offers to buy penis pills, X-rated DVDs, diet patches, and smoking
remedies, or to help yet another deposed Nigerian prince with
a secret money transfer?
Here are the facts:
- 1/2 to 3/4 of all spam email has forged reply
addresses, estimating that the spam volume is now up to 1 billion
messages a year. Jeff Lawhorn, Software Design Associates
- The Federal Trade Commission reports that when
it went after spammers earlier this year, it received 500 unsolicited
e-mails in a single mailbox every day - and the commission probably
didn't receive it all. CNN
- Spending on commercial e-mail will balloon
to $9.3 billion in 2006 from $164 million in 1999. In 1999, the
average consumer received 40 pieces of spam. In 2006, the total
is likely to soar to 2,300. Jupiter Communications
- Spam top 10:
1) Get your Diploma online
2) Penis Pills (Viagra)
3) Refinance your mortgage
4) Nigerian confidential money transfer
5) Win a free vacation
6) Best online casino
7) Canadian prescription drugs
8) Get out of credit card debt
9) Meet singles in your area
10) Copy DVDs in one click
If you add up the total amount of time you spend
deleting unwanted Spam messages by hand, it amounts to several
days each year.
Spam Blocker Legislation (CAN-SPAM) has passed
and was signed into law. Unfortunately, all it did was legalize
Spam and provide a set of weak rules for Spammers to follow. The
fact is, Spam is just as bad now as before the law passed.
Don’t count on any of the new proposed legislation protect
you, either. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Spammers continue
to bombard you with unwanted ads simply by using remote servers
located in offshore locations where Spam is legal. There is nothing
the federal government can do to stop it.
Now the good news: There are literally thousands of Spam
blockers available on the internet, and we founded Spam
Filter Report as an organization to review these products to help
consumers make the wisest possible choice. Here is our top list
of the best values in the Anti-Spam market. Many of these
programs can be downloaded free, right here.
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