SpamTitan reports Spammers getting back to basics

Online, May 24, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Security Analysts at SpamTitan Technologies today reported that recently spammers are getting back to basics with a significant rise in the level of pornography and adult content based spam being blocked. This trend sees varied spam relating to Icelandic volcanic activity and the forthcoming FIFA world cup being replaced in volume by more 'traditional' spam. This category of spam includes offers for products designed to increase or enhance sexual potency, links to porn sites or advertisements for pornography.
A recent survey (March 2010) from the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, an anti-spam trade organization reports that 11% (sample size 3716 ) of respondents clicked on a spam message they believed to be Spam. Of these surprisingly 15% clicked on the message because they were interested enough in the product offered to do so.
SpamTitan CEO Ronan Kavanagh believes that 'there is no great mystery as to why spam is so prevalent and proliferating. The fact that we are seeing spammers resort to basic more traditional spam is because people respond to these messages and it's this very response that make spamming profitable for the spammers'. According to Kavanagh 'It is clear that low quality spam emails selling everything from 'performance enhancing drugs' to 'designer watches' are a considerably effective sales tool. SPAM will continue to exist as long as it is profitable and with growing numbers of people on the internet spammers have a growing market of millions of people for their spam. Its purely a numbers game, the greater the market for the spammers the greater chance of a response and therefore the greater the reward'.

To prevent these spam attacks, organisations need to secure their organisations and manage Internet usage in order to improve network security. SpamTitan is a turn-key email security solution which has been designed to be easily managed by organizations of all sizes, even those with extremely limited in-house technical resources.

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