Report: Spammers Cost Russian Internet Users $30M Per Year
Every year spammers do $30 million worth of damage to Russian Internet users, a study by UNESCO IFAP Russia has shown.
According to the RBC News agency during the period of study every email address in the domain zone IFAP.ru received from 8.4 to 11.7 Mb of spam monthly. An average spam message size can be anywhere between 4 to 46 Kb. The largest ones were 840 Kb.
Russia’s approximately 10-17.5 million Internet users pay an extra $2.5 million monthly or $30 million annually for Internet traffic caused by spammers.
If viruses are taken into account, then the sum will double, RBC points out.
posted by Fergie @ 9/07/2005 07:39:00 AM
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