====== Spam - Cost of Spam ====== Spam Costs You More Than Just Money. * Added Bandwidth and Storage Expenses. * Management Costs and Lost Productivity. * Unreasonable Anti-Spam Filtering and Software Costs. * Safety and Disaster Recovery Expenses. * Environmental Impact. ---- ===== Added Bandwidth and Storage Expenses ===== Shelling out for more of each—because individual file sizes keep growing. Spending more money to store untold gigabytes of worthless messages not going to be read. ---- ===== Management Costs and Lost Productivity ===== With the uptick in email being sent, trying to keep up with the volume in inboxes is difficult and time consuming. Even if only a few seconds is spent to get rid of each unopened spam message, it adds up to minutes a day, hours a month, and days a year, all dedicated to hitting that **delete** button. Spam creates an unnecessary expense. Lost time is lost revenue. It is suggested that 15 seconds on average is used to process each spam email. ---- ===== Unreasonable Anti-Spam Filtering and Software Costs ===== It is expensive maintaining a server; and spam is increasing this spend. ---- ===== Safety and Disaster Recovery Expenses ===== Phishing emails are getting more dangerous all the time as hackers and spammers come up with new ways to get around anti-spam defenses. Some people may be savvy enough to avoid falling for phishing tricks, but just one errant click could set off a chain of events that leads to a data breach. Everyone makes mistakes now and then, unfortunately. If these spam emails were not received, then the mailbox would be cleaner with less risk of being caught out. ---- ===== Environmental Impact ===== Not just extra energy costs to the receiver of these emails, but there is also a recognized environmental impact to spam, marketing and advertisements. ---- ===== References ===== https://www.ezcomputersolutions.com/true-cost-of-spam-for-companies/ https://www.cudamail.com/spam-cost-calculator/ https://vialect.com/cost-of-internal-email-spam/