The Security Mentor

I just dug down through my piles of paper to the Septemeber 2007 Consumer Reports. They surveyed people about computer security issues and spam. Extrapolating from their survey results, they figure that in the month before their survey about 650,000 people ordered something from a spam email.

Not only were those people helping support the criminals who are destroying email (about 95% of all email is spam now. All email infrastructure has to handle 20 times the volume it would if all email were legitimate), but why do business with a criminal at all?

If it's spam, it's a scam.