Half of all spam involves lottery scams making them one of the fastest growing areas of cyber-crime, according to research commissioned by Microsoft across Germany, Italy, Denmark, the UK and The Netherlands..The problem is worse in the UK where around 62 percent of spam emails are lottery scams.

Disturbingly, 16 percent of those who received ‘lottery spam’ opened at least some of them, and 10 percent have replied to one of these emails and 20 percent admitted to clicking on links inside the emails. Three per cent of respondents said they have lost money to scammers over the past 12 months. Email lottery scams reaping rich rewards - Security - www.itnews.com.au

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