9. 1. Advertising for approximately 36% of all spam
messages
2. Adult in subject for 31.7% of all spam.
3. Unwanted financial emails at 26.5%.
10.
11. EXPLANATION OF THE ISSUE:
The spammers gather important and personal
information about the user.
• Questionable practices
• Posting
• Malware
• Any recipient of email can see the email
addresses of other recipients
• Tracking.
12. Privacy Violation Using Spam Case Study
• Australian Communications and Media
Authority (ACMA)
• Unsolicited commercial text (SMS) messages
from car trading company.
• Penalties of $6,600 for breaching the Spam
Act.
EXPLANATION OF THE ISSUE:
13. Identity theft issues.
Slowness of internet performance.
Spam imposes significant costs on organization.
Spam imposes significant costs on internet
service providers (ISP) and network operators.
EXPLANATION OF THE ISSUE:
25. SUMMARY:
This report shows information about spam and it focuses on the
following points:
•Spam is unsolicited bulk messages.
•Type of spam messages.
• Ethical issues caused by spam
• Solution of spam messages.
• Displaying opinion of people about spam messages.
• Supporting opinions with facts.
•Analyzing and evaluating spamming using workable ethical theories.
• Showing our opinion on spam.
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http://spam.abuse.net/overview/whatisspam.shtml
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http://www.allspammedup.com/2010/09/6-different-types-of-
spam-and-how-to-avoid-them
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http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/06/telegraphic-
spam-was-extremely-common-in-the-19th-century/
• [5]Spam Laws. [Online].
http://www.spamlaws.com/spam-stats.html
• [6](2013, February) ACMA. [Online].
http://engage.acma.gov.au/acmai/spam-statistics-january-2013/
• [7]mailchimp. [Online].
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spam-filters/