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78.6%
78.6% -- spam share of email traffic for US email traffic (2012)
According to a report by Symantec cited in 2012, spam accounts for 78.6% of all email traffic in the United States.
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78.6%
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Data Vintage
2012
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B
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50
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60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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Symantec
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Tier C
https://www.clickssl.net/blog/avoid-victims-of-hackers-and-cyber-thieves ↗
Source Article
Avoid Hackers and Cyber Thieves
The Internet is a very unsafe place. Any time you get in touch to the Internet, you are in risk of becoming victims of hackers and cyber thieves want to snatch you.
You should be aware that they are computer experts out there who do nothing but search for easily target. Sitting at the computer waiti…
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Symantec
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US email traffic: 78.6% spam share of email traffic. Source: Symantec (2012). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/spam-us-email-traffic-symantec
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/spam-us-email-traffic-symantec" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>78.6%</strong> -- spam share of email traffic for US email traffic<br><small>Source: Symantec (2012) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/spam-us-email-traffic-symantec" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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