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The investigation reveals a disturbing rise in the level of email spam travelling across the internet between April-June 2008, and how some spammers are now using Facebook and mobile phones to spread their messages.
By June 2008, research reveals that the level of spam had risen to 96.5 per cent of all business email. Having risen from a figure of 92.3 per cent in the first three months of the year, corporations are now facing the fact that only one in 28 emails is legitimate.
"If your company is on the internet, it's going to be hard for it to do business unless it has an effective anti-spam defence in place. Otherwise the amount of junk mail will be swamping legitimate correspondence from your customers and suppliers," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. "It should be remembered also that some spam is not just a nuisance, but malicious in its intent - trying to get you to click on an attached Trojan horse or lead you to a dangerous website.
