Cybercrims dump email for irresistible Twitter, Facebook spam Cybercrooks have quit pouring barrels of spam into email inboxes in favour of hassling marks on social networks as an easier way to make money. The dismantling of remote-controllable armies of compromised PCs, the collapse of some shady affiliate advertising networks, and better spam-filtering technology have all resulted in a …
Weird, I've had a Hotmail account for must be 15 years now and get about 10 a week, and I've used it for hundreds of things.
Hopefully they can start hassling those that deserve it instead of those trying to avoid it, moving over to Social Networking is a big step in the right direction. More of them should do this.
Nothing statistically relevant on my mailservers. We're still rejecting 99.99+% of attempted email deliveries and still letting too much spam through, according to the users (through they raise merry hell about the 1-2 valid pieces of email we reject each month - usually direct deliveries from home mailservers housed on adsl connections.)
If anything, delivery attempts are still trending upwards every year.
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