Facts about spam
Spam is unsolicited commercial email, or "junk email".
A conservatively estimated seventy percent of all email messages are spam.
With over 170 billion email messages sent daily, the number of spam email messages is approximately 120 billion every day.
The estimated number of current Internet users is over 1.2 billion people, or almost 19% of the world's population.
Spammers find spamming lucrative because the huge volume of spam means that even extremely low conversion rates make their ventures commercial.
Spam has become synonymous with scam. You can protect yourself by never replying to spam and never buying anything advertised in spam.
Other strategies to thwart spam include: use different email accounts for different tasks, for instance, use a disposable address when posting in public; remove your email address from your website; and turn on the spam filters offered by your email provider.