Where Did All the Spam Go?

	<a href='http://www.truthdig.com/banners/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a9cd87eb&cb=1418007369' target='_blank'><img src='http://www.truthdig.com/banners/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=1&cb=1418007369&n=a9cd87eb' border='0' alt='' /></a>	May 19, 2013
		Text Size

Trending: chris hedges economy elizabeth warren politics robert scheer

Truthdigger of the Week: Sen. Angus King

Letter From Birmingham Jail

Chilling: Arctic Tundra ‘Will Turn to Forest’

The IRS and the Real Scandal

'The Daily Show': Stewart Slams Hypocrites Cheney and Rumsfeld

The Lotto Symbolizes the False Promises of Barracuda Capitalism
By Juan Cole

The IRS and the Real Scandal
By Robert Reich

Truthdigger of the Week: Sen. Angus King
By Alexander Reed Kelly

Letter From Birmingham Jail

Yahoo Set to Acquire Tumblr

Flaring Violence Kills 130 People in Iraq in Three Days

Super PAC Suggests Rand Paul Is Running for President in 2016

The History That Birthed the Tsarnaev Boys

Factory Collapse Kills Two Workers in Cambodia

How Profitable Are Students in 2013?

‘Left, Right & Center’: The White House Scandal Trifecta

Save Our Democracy: Buy the L.A. Times for $660 Million

‘The Daily Show’: Stewart Slams Hypocrites Cheney and Rumsfeld

Video Allegedly Shows Police Beating David Silva to Death

‘SNL’: Stefon’s Farewell Features Anderson Cooper

Act of Congress
By Jesse Eisinger

Daily Rituals
By Gabriel Thompson

The Girls of Atomic City
By Scott Martelle

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

Dig led by Truthdig Staff

Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta

By Gore Vidal
$11.95

The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton

By Joe Conason
$11.66

Organic Cotton T-Shirt

$24

Where Did All the Spam Go?

Flickr / Max Braun (CC-BY-SA)

The people who keep track of these things report that global spam traffic dropped from 200 billion messages in August to just 50 billion in December. Unfortunately it appears that the spammers may have decided to pause their activity before a relaunch. Which is just as well because we’re running low on Canadian Viagra. —PZS

BBC:

One possible explanation is that the spammers are simply regrouping ahead of a new campaign.

Spammers are driven entirely by profit, said Carl Leonard, a researcher at security firm Websense.

“So if a campaign is not getting the returns they want, they can stop, regroup and try something else,” he said.

Read more

More Below the Ad

Advertisement

TAGS: advertising e-mail internet security spam tech technology

Related Entries

Email to a friend

Get truth delivered to
your inbox every week.

Previous item: Daley Tapped to Be Obama’s Chief of Staff

Next item: L.A. to Get Public Transportation Just in Time for Flying Cars

New and Improved Comments

If you have trouble leaving a comment, review this help page. Still having problems? Let us know. If you find yourself moderated, take a moment to review our comment policy.

By rico, suave, January 6, 2011 at 7:19 pm Link to this comment

skulz:

NOT THAT I NEED IT…

I’ll trade some Canadian Viagra for $5 million in Burkina Fasolians. Deal?

Report this

By skulz fontaine, January 6, 2011 at 6:30 pm Link to this comment

“Which is just as well because we’re running low on Canadian Viagra.”
Okay Truthdig, where is it? You know, Canadian Viagra. How you getting it? Does
HomelandSecurity/DEA know about this? Can just any Amerikan get that Canadian
Viagra OR, does one gots to be “hooked up” like Truthdig?
Come on guys, share-sies…

Report this

By rico, suave, January 6, 2011 at 6:15 pm Link to this comment

I’ll tell ya where- it’s coming to me! I get three emails a day from Burkina Faso or Nigeria urging me to take my 40% share of some dead guy’s $10 million estate. I’ve also won some Microsoft prize of $5 million, and some Irish lottery. Don’t know what I’m going to do with all the money. Maybe invest in a better spam filter.

Report this