Spam Report Shows The Wrong Strategies Can Reduce Business

Antivirus software company McAfee, recently released their 2009 Spam Report. The report found that blocking spam is difficult, but it is important, and that the wrong strategies can hurt business. The report covers topics such as the top subject lines in spam e-mails, sorted by the top-level domain of the spammer.

Top 10 subject lines for .com spammers are:

• Hello

• Hi

• RE: DISCOUNT 80% 0FF on Pfizer!

• Replica Watches

• Undeliverable Mail Returned to Sender

• Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

• Returned mail: See transcript for details

• Exquisite Replica

• Aloha

• Failure notice

Many of these e-mails are delivery status notifications, or “blowback,” meaning messages that have been bounced from a forged “From:” address. To view the full report, go to: McAfee.com.