Spam volume soared another 35% in November, an e-mail security vendor said Thursday, and the month saw spam tactics that reduced the efficiency of traditional anti-spam filters. “There’s been a huge increase in spam volume,” says David Mayer, a product manager at IronPort Systems, “from 31 billion spams a day on average in October 2005 to 63 billion in October 2006. But in November, we saw two surges that averaged 85 billion messages a day, one from Nov. 13 to 22, the other from Nov. 26 to 28.
85 Billion messages a day is difficult to fathom. You would think that numbers would decrease as laws are put into place, but it seems the exact opposite is happening. One reason for the huge boost is due to image based spam, and I know I personally get at least 20 stock market messages like this a day so I am not surprised there.