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Originally Posted by troutman
The decrease may be a result of recent takedowns of two botnets disarmed by the FBI earlier this year
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...int-since-2008
Global spam levels have dropped to their lowest point in three years, and now make up just 70.5 percent of all emails, according to Symantec's new Intelligence Report.
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That, and spam has gotten smarter.
Targeted spam and phishing, also called spearphishing, are 10x more effective than normal spam and take more resources to pull off, so less can (and needs to be) sent out.