Firms predict spam surge over holidays
12 November 2003
Net filtering firms have predicted a massive surge in the number of spam emails this Christmas.
Many have already reported an increase in the amount of net traffic advertising hi-tech gadgets as potential Christmas gifts.
Alyn Hockey, director of research at filtering firm Clearswift, told BBC News Online that the promotion of technology-based goods on the Internet made strategic sense.
'Not only are spammers developing more and more cunning ways of getting around e-mail filtering technology, but their marketing strategy is clearly up to scratch too,' he stated.
Clearswift also warned that the number of unsolicited e-mails offering loans to pay for Christmas presents was also growing rapidly.
Over one quarter of all messages stopped by the company during October were related to loans of this kind, which compares to a rate of 12 per cent in most months for financial products.
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