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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.
  • 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.


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.


Environmental Impact


References

spam/cost_of_spam.1622796624.txt.gz · Last modified: 2021/06/04 08:50 by peter

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