Fight Web Fraud With a Spam Email Blocker

Why is having a good spam email blocker so important? As Gartner Predictions reported, "By the end of 2007, 75% of enterprises will be infected with undetected, financially motivated, targeted malware that evaded their traditional perimeter and host defenses." There is no doubt that criminal activity on the Internet is on the rise, and anyone who uses the Internet or email is a potential target. Businesses are at particular risk for web fraud because the vast potential for theft of both money and resources-and access to many more victims. However, many of these web fraud attempts are conducted via spam email and can be stopped with a managed anti-spam package with a spam email blocker.


At the 2007 FTC Spam Summit, experts noted that bots had compromised nearly 12 billion computers around the world by 2006. Bots use these compromised computers to send about 95% of the spam that is sent out. Without a high quality spam email blocker on your side, one of your company's computers could be one of those used to perpetrate web fraud. Even if not, your company can fall victim to cyber criminals who steal your private information or send viruses that can potentially shut down your whole system.


A Spam Email Blocker can Save the Day
An email blocker, particularly if it is part of a managed anti-spam package, will stop web fraud in its tracks, ousting spam emails before they can make their way into your environment to cause their damage. When the task of filtering spam is left to employees, hours of productivity can be lost and viruses can still get through. If an unsuspecting user opens an innocuous looking email and triggers a virus that is sent to everyone in their contact list, the virus can spread through your company and beyond in a matter of minutes. That same user may have just opened up your entire system to a cyber criminal to steal your information and use your computers to send out more malicious spam.


With the increasing prevalence of web fraud today, using a managed spam email blocker is one of the best investments you can make to ensure the security of your company's computer systems, information and employees. For a low monthly fee, you can have the best anti-spam experts fighting on your side in the war against Internet crime, with sophisticated spam email blockers in their arsenal.