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- Junk mail is unsolicited e-mails sent to a bulk of people
- Many junk mail messages are false advertising
- 63% of list removal requests were not honored
- Bill Gates of Microsoft
said “Unsolicited commercial e-mail is a spreading plague that feeds off the unique power of the Internet to connect
hundreds of millions of computer users around the world, at virtually
no cost.
- Spam is an “enemy costing
the United States billions annually in lost productivity
- Eighty-six percent of addresses posted to web pages
and newsgroups received spam.
- Forty-one
percent of spam containing “adult imagery” contained false information in their “From” or “Subject”
lines.
- Ninety-six percent of spam concerning investment
and business opportunities contained false “From” lines, “Subject” lines, or message text.
- Ninety
percent of spam concerning investment and business opportunity offers analyzed by the FTC contained likely false claims.
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