I have decided to begin tracking the spam that I recieve to my primary email address. I am hoping it will provide some means of quantifying the effectiveness of my spam reporting. November is the first full month of tracking.
I have been reporting my spam using SpamCop’s free service. This sends a report to the administrators of every system being (ab)used by spammers. I have also been sending a copy to the FTC via uce@ftc.gov.
I recieved 356 spam emails in November. There does seem to be weekly ebb and flow with the levels peaking in the middle and declining by the weekend. Less than 60% of my spam is even in English. The Cyrillic portion looks like Russian, but I can neither read nor write Russian.
