The FTC has been collecting forwarded spam for several years:
Here's the email address: uce@ftc.gov
(Thanks to Bob Watson!) :: posted by Bryan, 3:54 PM |
The FTC now gets around 70,000 forwarded spams a day. Last year, they received about 40,000 pieces a day. Three years ago, that mailbox received about 4,000 missives daily, and in 1998 the entire year's take was fewer than 100 spams.
The FTC's spam collection is neatly sorted into "libraries" viewable by date received or subject matter. The spam can also be searched and sorted using keywords like "Opportunity," "Hi! and "Free!"
Six FTC employees are in charge of the spam database's contents.
"No one sits down and actually reads all the spam that we receive daily," Huseman said. "That would be incredibly boring and totally futile. We read selected spams when we're investigating a specific issue."
The FTC uses a content management application from Convera to search the database, dubbed "The Refrigerator" by FTC employees in reference to the large white server that houses the collection.
Here's the email address: uce@ftc.gov
(Thanks to Bob Watson!) :: posted by Bryan, 3:54 PM |
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