Sophos spams spam story

Number one on the list is for medication and pills, making up for 41.4% of all spam e-mail reports including, of course, all of those now-classic Viagra e-mails we've come to know and loathe. Second is mortgage spam which accounts for 11.1% of all reported spam e-mails, followed by porno with a 9.5% share of reported e-mails, and finally stock scams and product adverts with 8.5% and 8.3% respectively.

Sophos analysts are weary of the rise of stock scam e-mails, worrying that really, really, really, really naive online investors might get suckered out of their money. Frankly, though, if the e-mail sender is called "2938198381314NGNNE33" and the subject heading is "Make big BUXX on the $tock Market$$" you probably deserve to be robbed of everything you have.

Sophos says that the best way for businesses to dodge spam is to adopt a multi-layered defense as well as to "implement a best practice policy regarding e-mail account usage." µ