Survey: 12 Pct of Email Users Have Responded to Spam
Posted in Digital Trend.com by on July, 16 at 6:22 am
A new survey (PDF) conducted by the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) surveyed some 800 Internet users (400 online and 400 by phone) about how they protect themselves from spam, bots, and malware. Surprisingly, the survey found that some 12 percent of respondents admit to having replied to a spam message or clicked a link in a spam message because they were interested in a product or service the message promoted—a figure that flies in the face of conventional wisdom that the number of people two respond to spam is just a fraction of a percent of all Internet users.
The survey was th
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