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SPAM BOUNCER
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Lost Productivity
A Gartner survey in 2002 revealed that staff were already spending
an average of 49 minutes per day (10% of their time) managing their
email. Further, the IT department is increasingly occupied supporting
users with spam issues and dealing with the fallout from virus infections,
rather than working on productive projects.
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Wasted Bandwidth
Downloading unwanted email costs money in telephone and data transfer
charges. The bandwidth consumed means your Internet connection runs
slower, destroying the efficiency of your entire operation as commerce
becomes ever more reliant on Internet applications. European commission
figures put the cost of spam to European businesses in connection
charges alone at £6.4bn per year.
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Pornographic Emails
A significant proportion of unsolicited email messages contain pornographic
content causing distress to the recipient and creating dangers for
younger users. Additionally, a number of employees have already
successfully sued their employers for failing to provide adequate
protection from pornographic emails.
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Fraud & Identify Theft
Emails using social engineering techniques and spoofed web sites
to dupe the reader into disclosing confidential information such
as online banking access details, addresses and credit card numbers
are a growing trend. There is also the infamous Nigerian 419 scam
in which a deposed African dictator offers a cut of millions of
dollars for your help transferring it from a secret account in Africa
to yours. People were stung for an estimated £8.4 million
last year in the UK alone through advanced fee and other forms of
online fraud.
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Email Bourne Viruses
The convergence of virus and spam technology means that the problem
will only get worse. Recent virus attacks such as the Sobig and
Klez worms have brought corporate email systems to a halt, clogged
inboxes with useless mails, cost industry billions in clean up costs
and have the potential to inflict terminal damage on today's online
businesses.
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