Study:Spam costing companies $22 billion a year - Feb 3, 2005

Study:Spam costing companies $22 billion a year - Feb 3, 2005

The shocking part of this article, besides the shear amount of the economic loss, is that only 14 percent of the people who receive spam read it and only four percent actually buy anything. Yet, the tremendous amount of spam sent out over the internet means that even with such a poor response rate spammers will continue to flood e-mail boxes for their own economic benefit and to the detriment of the rest of us.