How Swindlers Thrive on the Power of Spam

Spam now comprises up to 70 percent of all electronic correspondence, and an increasing number of spammers are preying on readers' naivete, greed and carelessness. The result: The earnings of a network of swindlers are shooting through the roof.

Spam analyst Anna Vlasova of cyber-security specialist Kaspersky Labs said no less than 70 percent of e-mails received by the average Internet user were unwanted. And Maxim Dunin, director of postal technologies for Rambler, said that 85 percent of e-mails passing through its system were screened out as suspicious.

» The Moscow TImes - Nikolai Fedyanin Vedomosti - 11-10-2006

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