- Feb 11, 2011
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The unexpected raid and resulting death of Osama Bin Laden shocked the world. As always, spammers were quick to jump on this headline and send a variety of spam messages leveraging the event. The “Fallout from the Death of Osama Bin Laden” section includes samples of some of the spam monitored in different languages.
The effect of the Rustock shutdown from the previous month continued this month. After falling 27.43 percent in March, the average daily spam volume fell another 5.35 percent in April. Compared to a year ago , it is down 65.42 percent. Overall, spam made up 74.81 percent of all messages in April, compared with 74.68 percent in March. Going back a year, the percentage of spam was 89.22 in April 2010.
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