2010 Email Statistics

2010 EMAIL STATISTICS The NUMBERS behind the scenes 1 in 284 emails contain malware 1 in 445 107 emails are phishing emails As many as 95 BILLION 90% of spam is in English. A year ago it was 96% 88% of all spam is sent from botnets (networks of compromised PCs) phishing emails were in circulation in 2010 TRILLION Approximately 5 MILLION 2. emails sent in 2010 spam sending botnets worldwide 91% On average a single botnet sends 77 EMAILS PER MINUTE 1.88 billion ind email users worldwide 4620 PER HOUR ----------------- of spam contains some form of link 110880 PER DAY 25 percent Second most common type of spam -unsolicited newsletters The share of accounts that are corporate 294 Billion 262 Billion 32 Billion metia EMAIL messages per day SPAM emails per day LEGITIMATE emails per day www.metia.com Data obtained from Pingdom. "Diving deep into email spam statistics" January 19th, 2011, and "Internet 2010 in numbers" January 12th, 2011, www.pingdom.com 2010 EMAIL STATISTICS The NUMBERS behind the scenes 1 in 284 emails contain malware 1 in 445 107 emails are phishing emails As many as 95 BILLION 90% of spam is in English. A year ago it was 96% 88% of all spam is sent from botnets (networks of compromised PCs) phishing emails were in circulation in 2010 TRILLION Approximately 5 MILLION 2. emails sent in 2010 spam sending botnets worldwide 91% On average a single botnet sends 77 EMAILS PER MINUTE 1.88 billion ind email users worldwide 4620 PER HOUR ----------------- of spam contains some form of link 110880 PER DAY 25 percent Second most common type of spam -unsolicited newsletters The share of accounts that are corporate 294 Billion 262 Billion 32 Billion metia EMAIL messages per day SPAM emails per day LEGITIMATE emails per day www.metia.com Data obtained from Pingdom. "Diving deep into email spam statistics" January 19th, 2011, and "Internet 2010 in numbers" January 12th, 2011, www.pingdom.com 2010 EMAIL STATISTICS The NUMBERS behind the scenes 1 in 284 emails contain malware 1 in 445 107 emails are phishing emails As many as 95 BILLION 90% of spam is in English. A year ago it was 96% 88% of all spam is sent from botnets (networks of compromised PCs) phishing emails were in circulation in 2010 TRILLION Approximately 5 MILLION 2. emails sent in 2010 spam sending botnets worldwide 91% On average a single botnet sends 77 EMAILS PER MINUTE 1.88 billion ind email users worldwide 4620 PER HOUR ----------------- of spam contains some form of link 110880 PER DAY 25 percent Second most common type of spam -unsolicited newsletters The share of accounts that are corporate 294 Billion 262 Billion 32 Billion metia EMAIL messages per day SPAM emails per day LEGITIMATE emails per day www.metia.com Data obtained from Pingdom. "Diving deep into email spam statistics" January 19th, 2011, and "Internet 2010 in numbers" January 12th, 2011, www.pingdom.com 2010 EMAIL STATISTICS The NUMBERS behind the scenes 1 in 284 emails contain malware 1 in 445 107 emails are phishing emails As many as 95 BILLION 90% of spam is in English. A year ago it was 96% 88% of all spam is sent from botnets (networks of compromised PCs) phishing emails were in circulation in 2010 TRILLION Approximately 5 MILLION 2. emails sent in 2010 spam sending botnets worldwide 91% On average a single botnet sends 77 EMAILS PER MINUTE 1.88 billion ind email users worldwide 4620 PER HOUR ----------------- of spam contains some form of link 110880 PER DAY 25 percent Second most common type of spam -unsolicited newsletters The share of accounts that are corporate 294 Billion 262 Billion 32 Billion metia EMAIL messages per day SPAM emails per day LEGITIMATE emails per day www.metia.com Data obtained from Pingdom. "Diving deep into email spam statistics" January 19th, 2011, and "Internet 2010 in numbers" January 12th, 2011, www.pingdom.com 2010 EMAIL STATISTICS The NUMBERS behind the scenes 1 in 284 emails contain malware 1 in 445 107 emails are phishing emails As many as 95 BILLION 90% of spam is in English. A year ago it was 96% 88% of all spam is sent from botnets (networks of compromised PCs) phishing emails were in circulation in 2010 TRILLION Approximately 5 MILLION 2. emails sent in 2010 spam sending botnets worldwide 91% On average a single botnet sends 77 EMAILS PER MINUTE 1.88 billion ind email users worldwide 4620 PER HOUR ----------------- of spam contains some form of link 110880 PER DAY 25 percent Second most common type of spam -unsolicited newsletters The share of accounts that are corporate 294 Billion 262 Billion 32 Billion metia EMAIL messages per day SPAM emails per day LEGITIMATE emails per day www.metia.com Data obtained from Pingdom. "Diving deep into email spam statistics" January 19th, 2011, and "Internet 2010 in numbers" January 12th, 2011, www.pingdom.com 2010 EMAIL STATISTICS The NUMBERS behind the scenes 1 in 284 emails contain malware 1 in 445 107 emails are phishing emails As many as 95 BILLION 90% of spam is in English. A year ago it was 96% 88% of all spam is sent from botnets (networks of compromised PCs) phishing emails were in circulation in 2010 TRILLION Approximately 5 MILLION 2. emails sent in 2010 spam sending botnets worldwide 91% On average a single botnet sends 77 EMAILS PER MINUTE 1.88 billion ind email users worldwide 4620 PER HOUR ----------------- of spam contains some form of link 110880 PER DAY 25 percent Second most common type of spam -unsolicited newsletters The share of accounts that are corporate 294 Billion 262 Billion 32 Billion metia EMAIL messages per day SPAM emails per day LEGITIMATE emails per day www.metia.com Data obtained from Pingdom. "Diving deep into email spam statistics" January 19th, 2011, and "Internet 2010 in numbers" January 12th, 2011, www.pingdom.com