I've noticed that spam volume shrinks to a very low amount
(relatively)
on weekends and then immediately spikes on Mondays. This user gets
about 50-60 spam messages a day monday through friday. Then on
Saturday
and Sunday it drops to abotu 15-20 spam a day. This is really
curious
as I always imagined spammers using automated systems. Has anyone
else
noticed this, and what might be reasons for this?
People check email during the week, especially at work. You would
see the
same trends over long weekends (Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, etc..) At
Freeservers we noticed signups followed trends of when people were
typically
at work.
Sorry for the short reponse. Gotta make sure no one sees me
checking email
at work!
It partially has to do with having the email land in the inbox while
the person is at their computer. They are more likely to at least
glance at it. If you get in on monday and have 20-30 spam messages
waiting for you, you are more likely to just batch delete the whole
thing.
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