Spam soars: junk email up over 50%

RECORD amounts of spam are finding their way into Irish email accounts — it leapt by over 50% last year and is set to get worse in 2007.

Ireland’s foremost hosting company IE Internet said last year there was a 52% increase in the number of junk-mails it had to block on behalf 35,000 business email users.

Yesterday it released its third annual report when its Chief technical officer Ken O’Driscoll said spamming techniques were getting more sophisticated and difficult to stop.