AOL Blocks 2.37 Billion Spam Messages per Day

America Online blocked 2.37 billion spam emails in one day this week. At this rate, AOL’s anti-spam filters are preventing more than 24,000 spam emails from going to each of its members’ accounts each year. Only one week ago, AOL announced it was preventing over 1 billion spam emails from getting into its members’ email inboxes daily. AOL attributed the surge in its spam blocking to a variety of factors: members systematically reporting more spam; the tightening and strengthening of AOL’s spam blocking filters; the continuing surge of spam sent across the Internet using fraudulent, evasive and egregious methods; and the fact that AOL is actively working with other providers to target and block specific ranges of IP addresses known to be used by spammers. This last point has successfully resulted in a direct reduction of spam from specific providers by over 99% through provider-to-provider cooperation.
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