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Started by : Smita Dalvi, Sales/BD Manager, Hewlett-Packard   03 05 2010 08:12:55 +0000
Industry : InternetFunctional Area : Infrastructure(Technology)
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Recently, in the Cisco annual security report, it was said that India is the third most affected country in the world for spam mail attacks and has seen 130% percent increase in spam mail attacks as compared to last year. There has been a 30% to 40% rise in spam mails in 2009 alone and these have been listed as the single most threat to business, potent enough for security concerns.

The regular promotional advertisements that flood inboxes. 'Hard spams', on the other hand, have a malware embedded in them. They force the receiver to click a link and the Trojan virus is operated. Hard spams are generally present in pharmaceutical spam mails. Top-producing examples include 'spamvertised' sales of pharmaceutical products, spamvertised or 'spamdexed' advertisements for pirated software and scareware.

So users, according to you, why there is so high amount of spam mails in India?

 
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1 More number of users
2 Respect for others and focus with relevance on the job to be done
3 We are tolerant .. a growing economy .. somewhat "ignorant" too
4 Spam In India
5 Most Indians at Home use Pirated Software
6 so many spam mails
7 Mix of the above

More number of users

idea posted by Smita Dalvi Sales/BD Manager, Hewlett-Packard

Normally spam mail reports are found more in developing countries. The reason for this is, here, the population is more which results in more number of users. The more increase in userbase, the more is the amount of mails- both necessary and unnecessary. Because of this, the spam mails increase.

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Of course, more users more these practices. 

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No spam mail are increase because of users use .I know that how the spam mail are Create .yes I am agree with you in some point .More user ,More sites and more spam mail .

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Respect for others and focus with relevance on the job to be done

idea posted by RAMESH KANDADAI Principal Consultant, ARM Consultants

Because we are an incosiderate group of people.

Otherwise why is it that nearly 80% spam i get has no relevance for me. We simply send the mails and the smses by automatic setup without ever screening or filtering the database.

In addition to this many organizations - credit card companies, car dealers, insurance agents - sell their client list unofficially. This spreads our contact details all over the place.

Until we do any job we undertake with respect for the privacy of the recepient and do the job with a focus on relevance, the spamming will never reduce.

Even with the DND option with the service providers and a national DND registry, and with spam filters on our laptop and our ISPs, we still have not seen any reduction in spamming.

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We are tolerant .. a growing economy .. somewhat "ignorant" too

idea posted by ASOKE KUSARI Domestic Private Banking-Executive/Manager, A large leading PSU Bank - India

There may be many reasons : -

---  We are growing economy .. spammers are in search of money

---  We are lolerant .. dont take spams as serious & even often dont mark "Spams"

---  Ignorant about International crimes, about Money Launderings and Drug Trafficings etc.

---  As said here already, pirated software may be another reason ( spammers often 'push' their mails and no particular E-address is of necessicity ... may any expert make further comments ? )

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Spam In India

idea posted by Soorain Vahie Freelancer, Consulting

Believe me it is just as bas in other countries inpite of strict laws. Is it like the terrorist menace. THere is not much one can d? 

It is a part of the perks. 

 

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by Soorain Vahie, Freelancer, Consulting  | 03 05 2010 18:13:36 +0000

I meant just as bad

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Most Indians at Home use Pirated Software

idea posted by jaideep khanduja Head of the Department - QA and Project Management, Confidential

Most Indians at Home use Pirated Software and hence no control over spam since we prefer to use illegal OS, Office Suites, other software and spam blockers.

We are also fascinated by the label "FREE" which itself distributes our identity to god-knows how many spammers.

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so many spam mails

idea posted by Kunal Dutta Transactions Processing Executive, Steria India Pvt Ltd

spamming is an easy way of mass advertising.just like any normal advertising in TV-not all the ads are relevant for us.

also India is a country with high unemployment rates,hence breeding of spammers to make their livelihood. utilizing this concept companies benefit as online platform is far more cost-effective than conventional ad and also gets personal attention as delivered to each individual's inbox. its a win-win situation for both companies and spammers at the cost of the recipient's space.

also Indian society is yet to catch up with cyber laws and legal issues regarding online data protection-ignorance is bliss.let's cash on it.

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Mix of the above

idea posted by Himanshu Thosar Head I T, Ali & Sons C. LLC.

Actually not any one can host responsibility of SPAMS, it is indeed combo of multiple facts in my opinion like More users, Tolerance and Pirated softwares

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