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| | Mind-Boggling Spam Stats
- Amount of spam AOL and MSN blocks every day:
2.4 billion
- Percentage of children receiving age-inappropriate spam daily:
80%
- By 2007, percentage of email that will be spam:
70%
- Projected lost productivity costs in 2007 for U.S. businesses due to spam:
$75 billion
- Amount spent by businesses in 2003 on spam filters:
$653 million;
by 2007: Over $2.3 billion
- Percentage supporting banning spam:
73%
- Percentage opposed to banning spam:
8%
- Percentage of users who spend more than 10 minutes dealing with spam daily:
75%
- Percentage spending more than 20 minutes dealing with spam daily:
24%
- Estimated number of legitimate messages falsely labeled as spam by filters:
1 in 8
- Rank of spam among consumer complaints:
#1
- Over the past two years, spam has doubled:
Every 6 months!
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