Online Gambling Sites Don’t Spam

February 14, 2008

Many people are afraid to give out their email addresses to online gambling sites for fear that they will be targeted with Spam from the companies. However, it seems that they have nothing to fear from the groups. In fact, online gambling sites make up less than 4% of the world’s spam emails.

A recent report filed by Websense Security Laboratories states that there has been very little spam coming from the online gambling sites, even though people want to claim that they are responsible for a large portion of it. This is just not true.

They say that they did see a lot of storm attacks to users’ computers which are worms, Trojan horses, bots and spam agents, but nothing of this kind comes from the online casinos themselves. Due to the nature of these attacks and the fact that firewalls are useless against many of them, it has become a real problem for the online gambling industry.

They say that people are afraid to give out their information over the web as they may not have the protection that they need on their computers to combat it. As more and more legitimate websites are attacked by these Storms, is has only ultimately led to more attacks on the same sites.

The company checks for spam from online gambling sites as well as searching for any kind of malicious code. They scan emails as well, to the tune of more than 3650 million a week. More than 87% of the email messages sent worldwide were spam, but it is not coming from the online gambling industry.




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