Google Engineer Claims Viagra Email Spam Declining
14 12 2007
“according to Brad Taylor, a staff software engineer at Google: The number of spam attempts — that is, the number of junk messages sent out by spammers — is flat, and may even be declining for the first time in years.” - wired.com
Many other experts agree. What’s interesting though is that each expert seems to take some of the credit for the declining email spam and they express it as across the board, all types of email spam.
BEEEEEEEEEEEEP! WRONG!
The real reason for the decline of email spam is casino and mortgage email spam has declined and that is due to the lack of monetary incentives to send the spam.
1. the public gaming industry ceased accepting online wagers.
2. “The mortgages market in the United States underwent serious economic changes with the sub prime mortgage collapse.” - zdnet.com
We hardly ever see casino or mortgage email spam nowadays. Those two industries accounted for a large percentage of overall spam. Prescription pill email spam such as Viagra, Cialis, Levitra, Ultram, etc are busy as ever.
My point is, the declining spam has little to do with fancy email filters and such.
Merry Christmas!
