I (personally) get hundreds of spams per day of all kinds. And yet,
I've only been hit _once_ by one of those spams. I don't think my traps
(>10M/day) see much. I've never noticed them during surveys of what
the traps get.
I monitor 50+ mailing lists (discussion lists) and I do notice them from time
to time. My very rough estimate would be that it accounts for close to 0.1 per
cent of all mail sent to these lists. And that is after the lists' spam filters
have done their work.
Given the nature of these emails, I think they are unlikely to make it to traps.
It was easier to phone the person and warn them. They already knew,
and it was already fixed.
In the few cases I've personally dealt with, the 'victims' had noticed before I
had the chance to warn them. Password changed, problem solved. I never really
found out whether this was because the spammers did not get hold of the
passwords in the first place (but used session cookies, malware running on the
desktop etc.) or because they just couldn't be bother to change it.
Martijn.
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