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Porn Spam Is So 2003
from the moving-on dept
Late last year, we noted that porn spam seemed to be on the decline according to various studies, as things in the "healthcare" (defined very loosely) were becoming more popular among spammers. This year, porn spam tried to make a comeback, but couldn't seem to hold out against other types of spam, including the ever-present Rolex spam. In the end, it appears that porn spam is on the decline. A year end report notes that barely any porn spam made it onto the list of top junk email for 2004. According to the article, part of the reason is that spam filters have become much better at filtering out the pron spam (though, for some reason, the article suggests that the filters couldn't stop "HOT LESBIAN ACTION" from getting through to many inboxes). Right at the top of the list, however, were spam promising prescriptions for Vioxx -- which makes me wonder if most of those came before or after Vioxx was banned from the market.
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Maybe it's because my main E-mail addresses only get a couple of spams per day (any that start getting hit a lot, I kill), but I never got any Rolex spam and haven't gotten any porn spam.
I get logo design spam, Viagra/Cialis spam, free bulk E-mailing for charities spam and cheap software spam. I've saved almost all of my spam since March 2003 (about 420-430 items, I think), and I wonder if it would be interesting to analyze.
My old E-mail address, which I rarely check anymore, gets lots of porn, Vigra and foreign language/odd character spam. I hadn't logged on since the middle of October, but I just checked it for this post. It looks like I got about 623 new messages, mostly spam -- including some Rolex ones.
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