Dear Friend: 92 percent of all email is spam, says Symantec

This statistic may or may not come as a surprise, depending on how closely you monitor your email inbox. Symantec has released an estimate that 92 percent of all email is spam, up from 89 percent last year. The good news? Phishing attacks declined 5 percent this year, and if we had to make a guess, we'd say attacks of listening to Phish are on an upswing. Check out another one of our favorite example spams below.

[Awall1987 Posted Aug 13th 2010 8:30AM]

Symantec=The Mafia.

You pay protection money to keep your computer working, then your sub runs out and you get a threatening message telling you to renew your service or your computer will mysteriously burn down from arsonists

[AlexNoVA Posted Aug 13th 2010 2:13PM]

Just hoping the methodology is better than the Rimm study...

[Dell Discount Posted Aug 15th 2010 3:59PM]

Sounds about right...9 out of 10 of my e-mails are spam