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). ↩︎
About the Author
Mickey Chandler is a Consultant & Attorney with over 28 years of experience in Email Deliverability & Privacy Law. He has a strong background in email authentication infrastructure (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), ISP and mailbox provider relations, anti-spam policy and compliance, CAN-SPAM and state anti-spam law gained through overseeing the Abuse & Compliance team at Salesforce Marketing Cloud, originating the ISP relations role at Informz (now part of Higher Logic), and working in the fight against spam since 1997. He holds a B.A. in Government, a B.S. in Computer Information Systems, and a J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center. He is a certified CIPP/US professional and a certified CIPM professional.
