Kaspersky Lab review on spam in 2006

Spam percent in Russian mail traffic reaches 70-80% according to Anna Vlasova, the head of analysts group for Kaspersky Lab, who reported on 2006 spam trends in Russian segment of the Web. Generally she admitted spam to become more diverse in subjects - law and audit consultancy, realtors, printing houses arrived - and more criminal. This year also made way for mobile spammers via SMS. Most spam in Russians' mailboxes origins from Russia (22%), US (20%) and China (11%) promoting medicines with Viagra on top and educational offers. Anna Vlasova also pointed at rising 'graphic' component in those messages which now score to 50% of the whole electronic garbage.