Sophos 96.5% Of Business Email Is Spam

Sophos reports:

By June 2008, research reveals that the level of spam had risen to
96.5% of all business email. Having risen from a figure of 92.3% in the
first three months of the year, corporations are now facing the fact
that only one in 28 emails is legitimate.¹

Footnotes

Sophos, Only One in 28 Emails Legitimate, Sophos Report Reveals Rising Tide of Spam in April – June 2008, Sophos Press Office (2008), https://web.archive.org/web/20080716111928/http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2008/07/dirtydozjul08.html (last visited Jul 16, 2008). ↩︎

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