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p. 121<br />

Symantec Corporation<br />

Internet Security Threat Report <strong>2013</strong> :: Volume 18<br />

SPAM AND FRAUD ACTIVITy TRENDS<br />

Commentary<br />

• The spam rate has decreased across all top 10 geographies<br />

in 2012. The highest rate for spam is for organizations in<br />

Saudi Arabia, with an overall average spam rate of 79.1<br />

percent. In 2011, the highest rate was in Saudi Arabia, with<br />

an overall average spam rate of 80.9 percent.<br />

• The spam rate has decreased across all top 10 industry<br />

sectors in 2012. Organizations in the Marketing/Media<br />

sector were subjected to the highest spam rate of 69.3<br />

percent in 2012; in 2011, the automotive sector had the<br />

highest spam rate of 77.9 percent.<br />

• The spam rate has decreased for all sizes of organization in<br />

2012. 68.4 percent of emails sent to large enterprises with<br />

more than 2,500 employees in 2012 were identified as spam,<br />

compared with 75.2 percent in 2011.<br />

• 68.4 percent of emails sent to SMBs with up to 250<br />

employees in 2012 were identified as spam, compared with<br />

74.6 percent in 2011.

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