July Spam Report Appears

Today McAfee released its July 2009 Spam Report, which reveals the Top 15 spam subject lines by domain, among other highlights. So what was the one subject line that was most popular in six continents this quarter? Viagra.

For the .COM domain, “hi” and “hello” hit the most in-boxes, while Viagra and “Salute, man!” subject lines were the most common in the .UK domain.

Among the other findings in the June Spam Report:

Ӣ Cybercriminals try to hide from local authorities by sending their spam to foreign addresses

”¢ Recipients of spam are blocking emails from entire regions of the world–meaning the large quantity of spam being hosted by developing nations may hurt the growing legitimate businesses there that are trying to send valid emails

The current Top 5 spam subject lines for the .COM domain are:

1. Hello
2. Hi
3. RE: DISCOUNT 80% 0FF on Pfizer !
4. Replica Watches
5. Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

See the Top 15 subject lines for each major domain (.ORG, .UK, .CN, etc.), as well as the rest of McAfee’s July Spam Report here.