Spam Is Up, Up, Up

I thought it was just me. I've been getting tons in the last week or so, with similar subject lines:

I opened the first few only to be greeted by an embedded GIF. I asked a bunch of friends on a private list I moderate if they were also seeing this stuff. Some weren't, but one guy, Jim H. from Pasadena, was overloaded, too.

"Yes, yes and YES!," he writes. "About 50 to 75 a day of these types mixed in with the normal dose of ViAgRa crap. Someone must have launched a script with every domain name they could find. I don't even fight it anymore, I just press the Delete key and keep going."

Then I spotted a blog from Alex at Sunbelt Software. He also saw a big jump in spam, but he has some numbers to prove it. And a piece in SecurityFocus says that botnets could be behind the spam surge. IDG's Robert McMillan tells us about how "Spammers Find Pictures Better Than Words" here. You can also read about why spam lands in your inbox here.

There's more in the news: From PC World, read Spammers Cashing in on Free Hosting Services and then learn about the latest trend -- spear phishing -- from NetworkWorld's "Spam that delivers a pink slip." These convincing message are a horror and our very own Erik Larkin has plenty to say about the spear phishing problem.

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