According to the results of the Monthly Spam Report published by Symantec in April, when spam activities were observed in March 2008, the average spam rate in e-mails was around 81%, and the highest spam rate of all time, 88%, was again in March.
The highlights of March can be summarized with the following headings;
- Mail Transfer Agent Programs (Mail Transfer Agent Programs) Transfer Agent Programs – MTA): Spammers, taking advantage of the multitude of MTA programs, not only use backscatter practices to filter through e-mails, but also manage to enter users’ message boxes by jumping into widespread mass e-mails around the world..
- Spammers in EMEA Are Increasingly Targeting Social Sites: The vast majority of spammers detected in the EMEA Region aim to reach users through social network development sites – One of them has reached more than 2 million Symantec customers.
- Spammers Distribute, Not Tax-Day Refunds: When the date showed March 15, Symantec announced that malicious spam messages were being sent out by popular programs like TurboTax and the IRS (Internal Revenue Services).
- Attachment Spam Methods Didn’t Reach A High Percentage Within March Deviations Despite Beginning To Be Used Again: Drug to drug sales While spams for (pharmaceutical) are very popular tools that can take on any format and size, spammers have reverted to the old ways of using attachments that come with emails – zip files being one such method.. Although zip files were successful in getting rid of spam filters, zip files accounted for only 5% of all spam attacks observed in March.
- ‘419 Spammers’ 2010 South Africa World Aims for the Cup: The 419 Nigerian Spam Scam users, which are quite harmful and dangerous to many, are informed that they won $2 million during the 2010 South Africa World Cup presentation to the masses.. After this notification, the attackers expect users to enter their personal information in the hope of accessing this promised money..
- New Destination, Phone Sex: For the past two months, Chinese spammers have noticed the popularity of “sex sales” and have taken advantage of methods that directly market phone sex
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