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Prague – Last year, junk mail accounted for up to 90 percent of all delivered e-mails in the Czech Republic. At the same time, the total volume of spam increased by 17.3 percent year-on-year. This follows from information from Mailkit and Eset.
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According to Eset, there were both locally targeted spam campaigns and global ones in the Czech Republic last year, which usually abuse the most well-known brands of products or companies. The number of spam e-mails aimed at cryptocurrencies has been growing for a long time, both at wallets and at the most famous crypto exchanges such as Binance or Coinbase.
“In all cases, we come across e-mails written in Czech as well as those in English. Other languages are relatively rare. Czech is increasingly often at a very high level, and purely Czech campaigns using domestic themes such as subsidy titles, investments with ČEZ companies or Agrofert or social benefits. The long-term trend is to parasitize on well-known Czech personalities, for example Jaromír Jágr and still Petr Kellner, or on logistics companies and banking houses operating in the Czech Republic,” said Czech Eset spokesman Ondřej Šafář.
The company Mailkit, which operates one of the largest networks of spam traps in Central Europe, last year recorded, for example, potency medicine, best drugs, Louis Vuitton handbags discounts or sexomania as frequent subjects of unsolicited e-mails. “Phishing attacks also increased last year. The links most often called for mailbox owners to change their login information due to stolen logins,” said Libor Nádvorník from Mailkit.
Spam traps are email addresses that are created or reactivated solely for the purpose of identifying and filtering spam emails. If a sender sends an email to a spam trap address, it means that they have not received the recipient's consent to send the email and are marked as a spammer. This often results in their emails being blocked .
