Spam has been in existence as long as email systems have been filling inboxes with wanted and unwanted emails.<\/p>\n
Spam is the junk mail<\/strong> of email systems. It is the email you didn\u2019t ask for, on topics you\u2019re not interested in and spam is often linked to forms of cyber-crime such as password phishing, fraud and deception<\/strong>. \u201cPhishing\u201d is the term used in the IT industry to describe people or systems who attempt to trick you into giving them your passwords or personal details.<\/p>\n In 2013, over 90 million spam email messages<\/strong> were sent on a daily basis. That is over 32 billion<\/strong> spam emails sent in one year! Over 9% of spam emails in 2013 originated in the USA. (Source<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n In order to protect email users from this onslaught of unwanted and dangerous communication, the software industry developed tools and services to detect and destroy spam<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The software is called a \u201cspam filter\u201d<\/strong> and it detects suspicious emails that contain\u00a0content that has proven to be harmful or unwanted by the recipients.<\/p>\nSpam Filters to the Rescue<\/h2>\n