Spam Mail Test Study
Anyone with an email address knows about spam mail. It is just a fact of life that at some point or anything, any email address will receive some spam—and typically, it is sooner, rather than later. As soon as one spammer finds out your email address, your email address might as well be a neon blinking light set up in the center of a busy road with a giant arrow pointing toward it. The point is your email is quickly spread throughout the internet.
As your email is spread from spam mail list to spam mail list, you soon see your email box quickly fill with more and more junk. Every day you see emails touting miracle medical methods, get rich quick schemes, and x-rated offers. These email deals keep increasing in number by the day—unless you do something to stop it.
A spam email study was done recently across the world. The study was called S.P.A.M.—or Spammed Persistently All Month. In this study, 50 people across the globe from 10 countries were asked to surf the web for 30 days…without any type of spam mail protection. The study members were to try to get as much spam as possible. Even so, the results were quite astounding.
Spam Emails Received by Country
In total, the 50 study participants received over 104,000 spam mails during the course of the 30 days. This averages out to nearly 2,100 messages per person, or about 70 spam mails per day. Here’s how the emails actually broke down by country, however:
Spam Mails – Country
23,233 – United States
15,856 – Brazil
15,610 – Italy
12,229 – Mexico
11,956 – United Kingdom
9,214 – Australia
6,378 – The Netherlands
5,419 – Spain
2,597 – France
2,331 – Germany
Problems of Spam Mail
Many of the above-mentioned study participants noticed large differences in the functionality of their computers. The spam emails they were receiving were not just landing in their in-boxes—the messages were causing their computers to slow down. Websites associated with these spam mails were installing malware while the study members were surfing the internet. This proves that spam mails are not just annoying—they can actually be dangerous to any person’s computer system.
Importance of Spam Mail Prevention
It is clear that spam can pile up quickly. Even if you haven’t seen it first-hand, the study has proven just how fast spam mails can take over an inbox. Because of this, it is essential to have a system to manage spam.
Additionally, many spam mails are getting rather convincing these days. Some of these emails have a personalized touch, making them sound as if they are coming from a trusted friend rather than a spam source. Other emails, called “phishing” emails, seem exceedingly trustworthy—they even look as if they are coming from an important source. Many people fall for these spam mails and end up giving spammers their usernames and passwords and credit card information to very important websites.
Spam mail prevention is a true necessity—one which people should pursue, not assume is present in their email program.
