EU countries do not know how to effectively deal with spam

The countries of the European Union do not work effectively enough in the application of laws aimed at protecting against spam, which is becoming more sophisticated and criminalized. This is stated by representatives of the European Commission, reports Reuters .

According to statistics, more than 80% of all e-mails are exactly spam. A particular danger in this case is the increasing number of letters urging recipients to provide this or that financial information.

As a model example, EU representatives cite Holland: in three years the flow of spam from servers located in this country has decreased by 85%. Investments in the fight against unsolicited mailings amounted to more than 500 thousand euros, a special state anti-spam agency was created, whose employees work around the clock. In Finland, the amount of spam that reaches e-mail account owners has decreased to 30% (in July 2003, its share was 80%).
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The losses caused by spam are huge: in Germany - 3.5 billion euros, in the UK - 1.9 billion. Total losses on a global scale, according to Ferris Research, in 2005 amounted to 39 billion euros.