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Spam Numbers Plummet by 66% After McColo Shut Down

by Lee Bains on November 14, 2008 at 08:58 AM


Thanks to the busting up of spam purveyor McColo Corp., about which we reported Wednesday, Internet spam decreased by nearly 66-percent on Tuesday, according to the Washington Post.

This massive decrease is not particularly surprising, as experts had estimated that McColo was responsible for 75-percent of daily spam.

While these figures will surely help spam victims to breathe easy, we wouldn't get too comfortable, quite yet; the Post points out that, after September saw the abolition of major spammer Intercage, spam figures remained low for only a few days, as the result of spammers simply moving on to other operations. One expert foresees spam resuming previous volumes by next week.

Is it fair to call spammers human cockroaches? [From: The Washington Post]

Tags: crime, e-mail, e-mail scams, E-mailScams, mccolo, safety, security, spam, web

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