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04 Jul 2008
An anti-spam software company has revealed that three of the UK's five most spammed individuals use Orange as their ISP.
Figures released by ClearMyMail show that the three Orange customers have around 63,339 spam emails blocked every day and 23,118,735 spam emails blocked every year.
ClearMyMail failed to establish a connection between a customer's choice of ISP and the amount of spam they receive, but did name the UK's most spammed citizen, Exeter-based Colin Wells.
According to ClearMyMail, 44,000 spam emails heading for Wells's inbox are blocked each day, amounting to around 16 million a year.
At the height of the problem Wells, a workshop foreman for Stagecoach buses, was spending two hours a day deleting spam from his account, making the prospect of "taking a week's holiday a complete nightmare".
The UK's second most spammed individual, who also uses Orange as their ISP, is fortunate by comparison with just 13,578 daily junk messages.
The third, fourth and fifth most spammed British citizens get 12,428, 5,760 and 3,982 spam mails a day respectively.
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SPAM PROBLEMS
Its a problem that refuses to go away, while companies pay these people (you don't think they do it for nothing do you?) and IE, Outlook Express, Outlook, Vista Mail, Gmail and so on, are not helping. Try entering 'receive mail only from my contacts' in Windows Mail it just does not work. Same with Hotmail, Gmail etc. The only way I can see is to have a license where you are allowed to send a maximum of 50 or 100 emails per day. Every site Computer has an address and if that site is exceeding its limit then it is automaticly banned. The banned list is sent to Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail etc so as to prevent the spammers swopping ISP's etc.
Posted by: Hank Wells 09 Jul 2008