April 4th, 2005
80% of spam tries to mask words to trick spam filters, Cialis, orgasms and Viagra lead the list
Sophos researchers found that up to 80% of spam tries to mask certain words and slip past antispam software at the e-mail gateway. The lab estimates that more than 30% of spam it received contained URLs related to healthcare advertisements such as drug offers. More than 20% of URLs had offensive text messages.
Top words, distorted in order to trick the spam filters:
- cialis
- orgasms
- viagra
- shipping
- milf
- valium
- pharmacy
- xanax
- increase
- vicodin
Alex is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. ITFacts is created and updated by a group of statistics-obsessed individuals.
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