Email Spam Statistics and Information

7.3 billion Amount of junk email sent each day worldwide IDC, 2003
3.7 billion Amount of junk email sent to North America IDC, 2003
$10 billion Cost US business will spend to deal with email spam Ferris Research, 2003
$4 billion Cost in lost productivity Ferris Research, 2003
2,200 Estimated number of Spam messages received by an Internet user in 2002 Jupiter/Media Metrix, Dec. 2002
3,600 Projected number of Spam messages a user will receive per year by 2007 Jupiter/Media Metrix, Dec. 2002
25% Projected percentage of spam out of all e-mail traffic by the end of 2002 Gartner 2001
$8 billion Global cost annually in time and resources to combat the Spam problem European Union, CNET 2002
10% Time spent by small businesses dedicated to e-mail management Association for Interactive Marketing, 2002
2.3 billion Spam messages that will be sent on a daily basis by the end of 2002 Radicati Group
14.5 billion Projected number of daily spam messages by the end of 2006 Radicati Group
15.5% Percent of complaints logged last year by the Internet Fraud Complaint Center, a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center. Internet Fraud Complaint Center 2002