nine of 10 emails is junk mail

the quantity of junk mail has trebled because June and now makes up 90 according to cent of all e mail visitors, in line with a US file.

The large boom in junk mail messages is due to criminal gangs using so-called botnets to ship out unsolicited mail, US e-mail safety business enterprise Postini said.

throughout this year's Christmas buying duration the quantity will rise even in addition, the file confirmed. In June, 2.five billion junk mail emails had been despatched the world over, increasing to seven billion in November.

The spam emails are more often than not sent from america, China and Poland, in step with security corporation Marshal . Spamhaus , the task aiming to song spammers, estimates that a few two hundred criminals gangs are in the back of eighty according to cent of all unsolicited mail emails.