Chinese Internet users receive 2.7 junk e-mails per day

Chinese Internet users received two or three junk e-mails on average each day from June to October, with the fact that almost three in every five e-mails sent in China was junk mail.

Figures from the Internet Society of China (ISC) show China generates about 50 billion junk e-mails annually, accounting for 59.49 percent of the total e-mail volume, or 2.7 junk e-mails per user.

Zeng Mingfa, head of the ISC anti-junk mail center, said the figure was dropping. From February to August, at least 150,000 junk e-mail reports were sent to the center.

Spot checks by the ISC show that 47.86 percent of Internet users employed anti-junk e-mail software supplied by e-mail service providers.

Search engines and domestic senders are the main sources of junk e-mails, according to the ISC.

Junk e-mails occupied Internet resources and spread viruses, and Chinese Internet users spend an average of 12.67 minutes per week dealing with them, the ISC said.

Source: Xinhua