Spam Counts for Week Ending June 24, 2007

My GMail spam count jumped 13% to 343 spam messages in the last 30 days. This was up from 303 last week. My second GMail account hasn’t received any new phishing emails and was spam free.

I continue to get a small number of spam emails to my ISP account. This is one that I’ve never used or given out. Based on other addresses in the email they seem to be spamming a sequential range of addresses.

Comment spam at The OS Quest continued to drop drastically. There were 331 comment spam attempts which is a 51% drop from the previous week and a 87% drop from the 2,458 attempts of two weeks ago. The slide started soon after I switched to the Spam Karma Wordpress plugin. Spam Karma put two comments in moderation as possible spam and let two get through. All four of these comments were a format that didn’t include any URL’s in the comment itself, just linked to the name were Wordpress allows an optional website address.

There were 10 comment spam attempts at this website which is a 67% increase from last weeks six attempts. The lifetime total for this site sits at 220 comment spam attempts.