capoccia's Journal: February Spam Report

In Fegruary, my spam levels dropped to the lowest levels since I began keeping records. I am greatly relieved that the sharp rise in January did not continue into February. Maybe there is some hope that the generally weak CAN-SPAM Act will have some effect.

I have continued to file reports for every spam recieved with SpamCop, the FTC and the Internet Fraud Complaint Center.

I recieved a total of 148 spams in February. This compares to 259 in January, 270 in December and 356 in November. Overall, spam continues to decline at the rate of 4.7 spams per week.

Over the last four months, English-language spams have decreased almost four times faster than Cyrillic messages (40.8 vs. 11.2 spams per month). In February, 47 of my spam emails were in English and 84 in Cyrillic.

Spam Quantity by Day of Week
Language of Spam
Daily Spam Quantity
Historical Weekly Spam Quantity
Historical Monthly Spam Quantity by Language

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