The Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) and its member Internet service providers (ISPs) have joined forces to identify and list SA's top spammers, in an effort to cut down the significant growth generation of local spam.
The industry body's hall of shame was first initiated two years ago to assist South African consumers to effectively manage local unsolicited bulk e-mail, or what ISPA defines as spam.
The report was updated in June; however, instead of fewer spammers listed, the list keeps growing with fewer spammers being removed.
Symantec's latest 'state of spam and phishing report' shows globally, spam made up 89.81% of all e-mail messages in May, compared with 89.22% in April.
The security company says the Europe, Middle East and Africa region continues to expand its spam market share, as the region distributed 48.1% of worldwide spam in May.
According to policy governing the listing, new spammers are added when they meet the listing criteria. They are removed when no further spam has been received, or when they return a signed undertaking to observe best practice in the sending of commercial e-mail.
To this end, the updated report has seen only six removals but added 10 new spammers. “There is currently significant growth in the generation of local spam and while ISPA's members do their best to keep spam out of their customers' inboxes, this does come at a cost,” notes the organisation.
ISPA is consolidating the experiences of its members and other trusted parties, and disseminating this information so other ISPA members, ISPs and e-mail users (individual and corporate) can make similarly informed decisions on mail they wish to receive, or allow to pass over or through their networks.
The owner or operator of a network is entitled, both morally and legally, to determine what traffic flows over its network, provided this decision is made objectively, in accordance with accepted Internet standards and without ulterior motives or in contravention of the principle of Internet neutrality, states ISPA.
Removals from earlier report:
VillaSienna
Mail Burst
Planet Fitness
John West Art Galleries
Rooms 24-7
www.canit.co.za
Additions:
Streamlyn Technologies
Timothy - Business Boost e-Marketing Package
"Finance Offered"
Execqprop
ICDE Marketing
LegalAdmin Corporate
VETTA Communication Training Workshops
Worldclass Mobile
Inverness Group
Jonathan Pierce
Soccer Stressballs
Laser Express
Clench-it
ThinkMoney.co.za (since removed after providing signed undertaking)
BGreen2-Marketing
Trading Point
Msunduzi Gifts
Corporate Gift Empire
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