An article in the Guardian (Jan 12th) claimed that spam is dead. To test this theory, we compiled a week’s spam from last year and compared them with a week of this year’s spam from a well known email address that has been receiving spam for many years.

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We passed a new milestone the other day. 70,000 unique IPs listed in our database of recent spam senders (this is an aged database - if we don’t see any spam after three days, then the IP is dropped - you can access this information in the sbl.internetdefence.net RBL).
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We’re now seeing a reasonably large number of delivery/non-delivery reports coming back to “joe-job” addresses - the made up addresses that spammers use as the “envelope from” address.
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Most spam messages tend to be pretty small - so that the number of messages sent can be maximised for the given bandwidth (it’s quantity not quality!).
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We have been seeing a large number of emails with the subject “Christmas is coming on eBay.co.uk!”.
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I’ve noticed that over the last couple of days we’ve seen the appearance of Spam sent to random mailboxes - each individual mail with multiple recipients.
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