[pchelpers] News:Phishing for spam - hook, line and sinker

We all have a long-running battle with spam. When the internet was first 
made widely available, hundreds of emails a week would turn up in your 
inboxes; but you could also generally delete them without ever looking 
past the title bar. Spammers have caught on to this - and as mail 
filters have evolved, so has the technology used by spammers to get 
round these filters.

But it is not only the sophistication of spam emails that has increased 
- it is their volume. After seeing spam levels plateau in 2005, 
anti-spam organisations hoped levels would start to drop or remain 
fairly constant - but this has not happened. The amount of emails has 
increased exponentially, with the US technology firm Postini detecting 
seven billion spam emails sent worldwide in the month of November this 
year, compared to 2.5 billion in June.

More here:
http://www.bigmouthmedia.com/live/articles/phishing-for-spam--hook-line-and-sinker.asp/3337/
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