OTProf, an ABestWeb community member, posted a good article today from MSNBC’s The Red Tape Chronicles Blog that talks about the next generation of email spammers. Ever wonder what all the jumbled, nonsensical words are when you get those spam messages in your inbox? Or how about the messages that only include .gif images of nonsense?? It’s all tactics by likely the same spammers to avoid word filters that detect spam email messages. If you think email spam is getting better, think again. From the article:

“There are 62 billion spam messages sent every day, IronPort says, up from 31 billion last year. Now, spam accounts for three of every four e-mails sent, according to another anti-spam firm, MessageLabs.”

What motivates these people to send email spam? Could it possibly be working for them? I sure hope not but unfortunately it must be or why would they work so hard to not only spam in a traditional sense, but also infect unsuspecting user’s PC as “spam-churning” machines!

“New computer viruses have contributed to the uptick, also, particularly a surprisingly prolific Trojan horse program called ‘SpamThru’ that turns home computers into spam-churning bots.”

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