Why is there less spam than before?
I read recently that there was less spam sent last year than in years prior. Are spammers being caught and prosecuted more? Are people wising up and not buying stuff from spam messages? Or is the economy getting so bad that spammers can't afford to send out bulk emails anymore?
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Although those are all great reasons for there not being so much spam, it probably has to do with the fact that modern spam-blocking software (in gmail, hotmail, and yahoo, plus in Outlook & Apple's Mail.app) works reasonably well nowadays. Also some security experts say that scammers are more interested in "spearfishing" attacks on your personal data through other methods, which can produce even better results.
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Sorry, "spear-Phishing" attacks are when the attacker knows a little bit about the victim, then gets the victim to reveal more info, like when I was called from someone claiming to be from First Chicago bank, then she asked for my social security number. Knowing the bank already had that information, I realized that they wouldn't need to call me to ask for it.
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2009/april/spearphishing_040109
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