
According to Ipswitch, medication-related spam accounts for a quarter of all messages and tops the category list for a second quarter running.
Pornographic emails make up 21 per cent and undecipherable messages, many containing embedded images, account for 18 per cent, while twelve per cent of spam is phishing emails.
The figures echo a SoftScan study released earlier this month. It showed that spam levels in August hit a record for the monthly survey, with 97 per cent of emails classed as junk.
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