The average Brit receives over 10 spam messages a day (372 per month) by either email or text according to a new survey.
The study, from price comparison website moneysupermarket, indicates that despite being spammed every day, the survey reveals nine out of 10 (90 per cent) adults do not protect themselves against spam by automatically filtering their emails. This leaves them open to potentially dangerous messages.
81 per cent say the spam messages they receive are a nuisance, with the most common types of spam messages being sales (35 per cent), phishing (27 per cent) and pornography (16 per cent).
Although spam is widely seen as a nuisance, one in seven (14 per cent) people admit to acting on, or replying to, a spam message. The under-twenties seem to be the worst offenders with nearly a fifth (17 per cent) admitting to acting on spam.
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