Some People’s Names Attract More Spam
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
The amount of spam an individual receives depends upon the first letter of their name.
BBC News reports that e-mail addresses beginning with A, M, R, S and P got more than 40% spam, whereas those beginning with Q, Y or Z got about 20%.
The analysis was carried out by a computer scientist at Cambridge. Dr Clayton examined over 550 million emails, and believes spammers generate email addresses using popular names and dictionaries.