Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Spam Twenty-Six: The Round Mound of Rebound

AFTER THREE STRAIGHT WEEKS OF DECLINING NUMBERS, the spam has rebounded with 13% more emails than last week. Also back to normal are the Boner Meds, which are back on top of the chart, just like they should be. Nothing against the Replica Watches, but they don’t capture our imagination quite like the Boners do.

The big influx this week, though, is from Fake Returned Mail. Almost five times as many of those emails this week as last, and from a wide variety of far-flung places. I’m curious to see how that trend plays out.

Just a quick Chart while he’s away!

SPAM WATCH WEEK TWENTY-SIX
970 emails
BMS = 31% (up 4%)

((1/2)) -- 299 Boner Medication (80 Viagra/Cialis, 51 VPXL, 37 MaxGain, 4 LNH Solutions/LNH Maxdik, 3 WonderCum, 1 Megadik)
((2/1)) -- 236 Luxury Replica Watches/Purses
((3/3)) -- 190 Canadian/Online Pharmacy
((4/7)) -- 49 Fake Returned Mail
((5/5)) -- 42 OEM Software
((6/13)) -- 27 Earn Your Degree
((7/9)) -- 25 Foreign Gibberish
((7/4)) -- 25 Inspecific “Look at this!”
((9/6)) -- 20 Buy Designer Footwear
((10/11)) -- 13 Weight Loss (Anatrim/Phentermine/Hoodia)
((11/8)) -- 11 Online Casino
((12/10)) -- 7 Validate Your Identity (3 Chase, 2 PayPal)
((13/15)) -- 6 Improve Your Health
((14/15)) -- 5 Pheromones
((14/--)) -- 5 Stock News
((16/15)) -- 3 We Will Approve Your Loan/Debt Relief
((16/14)) -- 3 Human Growth Hormone
((18/15)) -- 2 Stop Smoking
((19/--)) -- 1 Online Dating Site
((19/--)) -- 1 Free McDonald’s Gift Card (If You Visit This Site)

KEY:
BMS = Boner Medication Saturation
((this week's rank/last week's rank))
-- = new to the chart this week

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