The real cost of spam encompasses many aspects which have a direct financial impact to business 
operations. The primary cost of SPAM to the business is lost productivity which is attributable to time spent reviewing spam.
Other costs include:
- Lost or delayed e-mails
- Viruses transmitted through spam
- Anti-spam technology
- Extra storage and bandwidth.
The total cost of spam to companies is estimated by research groups is estimated to be as much as $500 per employee/per year. An effective SPAM control solution and education will help companies handle spam more efficiently and save most companies a significant amount of money.
Delete or quarantine?
- It takes approximately 65% more time to track down legitimate e-mails which are missing or deleted than reviewing possible spam e-mails in a quarantine folder.
- Lost e-mails can also be very costly in terms of missed meetings or lost opportunities.
Worldwide SPAM Statistics
- In recent studies, the proportion of spam in email flows was nearly 70%.
- Nearly 75% of SPAM emails were no more than 1 KB in size.
- About 16.71% of spam was sent from the USA
- Only about 20% of all e-mails originate from known legitimate servers.
- Spam is predicted to cost over $130 billion to business worldwide.
- Many computer viruses are now designed to hijack computers to send out spam – turning them into so-called spambots.
- It is estimated that up to 25% of computers (150 million plus) could be bots.
TEKEASE Real Cost of SPAM Calculator
About the Calculation
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