What is spam?
"spam" is unsolicited commercial email which many consumers find annoying and time consuming, whereas others have lost money to bogus offers that have arrived in their email in-box.
Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who wouldn’t choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising, often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services. Spam costs the sender very little to send, with most of the costs picked up by the recipient or the carriers rather than by the sender.
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of spam blockers and anti spam filters. Their success has been very limited as the damage of stolen bandwidth and unauthorized use of network and private computer resources persist when the spam is merely blocked at the final destination. Even with the widespread use of spam filters, and despite a massive decline in volume (82.22%) since 2010, independent studies show 72.9% of all global email is still spam.
How to stop spam
For more information on spam and how to deal with unwanted email visit:
The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG)
The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group MAAWG is an industry group formed to fight messaging abuse such as spam and fraud e-mail. For more information visit www.maawg.org
