Global Spam Decline

The last four months have seen a massive decline in the amount of spam sent globally but analysts are unsure as to the reason why this may be the case.

At the start of August 2010 there were roughly 200 billion spam messages sent out per day but by the end of December this number declined to under 50 billion messages per day.

Rumour has it that three of the largest spam companies Rostock, Lethic and Xarvester, the companies that send out the main bulk of the worlds spam, have silenced their operations in the past few months. This silence is not due to any system issues at it seems that their harware and software are still in operational use.

The main reason behind this move could be to regroup and start a new spamming strategy through a new project. The reasons for spamming is to make as much money as possible, but if the returns are not as high as a spammer would want then its time to stop the spam and think of a new spamming project that could yeild higher returns.

This is not the first time that spam messages have reduced by such drastic numbers and it is for this reason that analysts believe this is simply the lull before the storm as the numbers pick up again.